Crime
Ebubeagwu claims it busts 15 of major Talibans terrorising Ebonyi
A stop-and-search operation in Abakaliki, Ebonyi, yielded a good result on Saturday as no fewer than 15 suspected hoodlums on were arrested by Ebubeagu, the state security outfit.
Speaking to journalists in Abakaliki, Special Assistant to the Governor on Internal Security, Eze Ikechukwu Patrick said the suspects were armed with locally-made gun at the point of arrest.
“Those boys are the major suspects that are terrorizing the state and we apprehended them yesterday night with a locally made rifle,” he said.
“You can see, we handed them over to the police for further investigation. They are fifteen in number but we still have others left, we took to the venue of the crime for investigation, we will equally hand them over to the police.
“We arrested some of them at Gariki the ‘burying ground’, while other ones are arrested at the centenary city. None of them is a student. Most of them are cultists.
“They are the major Taliban’s that are disturbing the people of the state and we have peacefully handed them over to the police.”
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