14 people were detained by the Anambra State Joint Enforcement Team of Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, Ocha Brigade, for engaging in criminal activity in Onitsha and the surrounding areas while wearing phoney military uniforms.
When introducing the suspects to the media on Friday, Ocha Brigade’s managing director, Celestine Anere, stated that the suspects had been detained on Thursday in several Onitsha locations.
Anere claimed that they engaged in robberies, intimidation of innocent locals, and coercive extortion of motorists and bystanders while wearing the phoney army uniforms.
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He also revealed that several of the accused have admitted to robbing commuters and innocent locals of their belongings and phones.
Some of them, he said, had acknowledged using hard narcotics and obtaining information for their criminal counterparts.
He said, “Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, Ocha Brigade, has previously arrested and prosecuted some of the hoodlums in similar cases and will continue to sanitise the state from criminals and drug syndicates.
“The effort to rid the state of criminal elements is in line with the mandate of the state government’s clean, healthy, livable and prosperous homeland. Let’s secure our state from criminal elements. We also appealed to the public to call the customer service lines provided for emergencies and inquiries.”
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