Edo state police command on Wednesday said it has re-arrested 18 of the runaway inmates who escaped from the two medium correctional centres in Benin, during the #EndSARS prison break.
Besides, it
said 16 cultists and 14 suspected armed robbers who have been terrorizing the
state capital were also nabbed in its renewed onslaught against violent
criminals.
It would be
recalled that Upper Sakponba Road, Third East Circular Road, Ogida Quarters,
Okhoro Road and other black spots in Benin metropolis are the scenes of an
ongoing bloody feud between suspected rival cultists, which has led to the
untimely death of scores of people, mostly youths.
The state
commissioner of police, Johnson Babatunde Kokumon, who made this known during a
parade of the suspects, said that policemen are not folding their arms watching
as hoodlums have a field day.
“We are not
folding our arms and watch the hoodlums have a field day. Our main concern now
is geared towards re-arresting the escapees and recovering the looted and other
illicit arms and ammunition in circulation.
“To this end,
the police and other security agencies in conjunction with the state government
put machineries in place to checkmate the activities of these rampaging
hoodlums, which have yielded some positive results,” he said.
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