POLICE operatives attached to the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Obehie in Abia State have arrested a police
officer identified as Sergeant Matthew Elah for allegedly snatching a
motorcycle from its owner at gunpoint.
Elah, attached to
the Department of Operations in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Police
Command, allegedly committed the crime at Umuteke, Akwette in Ukwa West
Local Government Area with one Sergeant Isah Alhaji attached to 48 PMF,
Ahoada, now at large.
In his confessional statement, the
suspect said Alhaji had asked him to accompany him for an operation
without giving the details to him.
He said, “Sergeant Alhaji came to my
house at Obehie and asked me accompany him to see somebody, but I saw
him with a gun and asked him where he got the gun from and he told me
that he got it from armed robbers who were arrested for snatching a
motorcycle.
“So, he stopped one motorcyclist, who
carried the two of us, but along the way, he asked the man to stop and
help him to open one gate while I was holding the gun for him. But he
later climbed the bike and zoomed off.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Adeleye Oyebade, who paraded the suspect at the Command headquarters in
Umuahia, said efforts were in top gear to arrest the fleeing sergeant
and recover the stolen motorcycle.
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