The Rivers State Police Command has said its men have arrested a fake Inspector who leads an armed robbery gang and neutralised four fleeing suspects involved in the January 2024 murder of a Community Development Committee Chairman of Mgboshimini in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state
The police said the fake Inspector identified as Fred Monday armed with an AK-47 rifle was arrested by men of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit who responded to a report of a criminal operation at about 11:45 pm on August 9, 2024, in Luegbo Community in Khana Local Government Area of the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, disclosed this while parading the fake Inspector, other suspects and the recovered military gear to newsmen at a media briefing in the command’s headquarters in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
He stated, “On arriving at the scene, the police met with an ongoing gruesome cult initiation process. Five suspects, later found to be students of the Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic, were arrested.
“The students, Mduni Clement, Prosper Wonyingipreye, Kunle Joseph, Eken Evans and Isaiah Elisha, confessed to being members of the Vikings confraternity. They have been charged in court and are presently in a correctional centre.
“While carrying out the arrest of the five cultists, the police encountered a man with them, fully dressed in police camouflage and donning the rank of an Inspector of Police.
“He was armed with an AK-47 rifle, 10 magazines and 29 rounds of live ammunition. He was taken into custody and after interrogations, his identity was revealed as Fred Monday, a 31-year-old from Wiyakara Community in Khana LGA of Rivers State and resident at the F-man Close, Eneka Link Road, Port Harcourt.”
Disu added, “He confessed to being an Impostor who bought the rifle in 2021 for N850,000 from an accomplice, Goodluck aka Boy-J.
“He also bought 10 magazines, 31 rounds of ammunition, and two hand grenades from the same accomplice. He disclosed to the police how he and other gang members would disguise themselves as policemen to escort criminals to operate in different states, including Akwa Ibom, Edo, Delta and Rivers states.
“Fred Monday is a confessed member of the Iceland cult group and has been carrying out numerous crimes using the cover of being a policeman to terrorise his victims.
“He is also an armed robber who operated as a Keke (tricycle) rider during the day, scanning the area for possible victims to attack under the cover of night,” adding that operatives were hunting other fleeing gang members.
He said exhibits recovered from the suspect were one AK-47 rifle
10 magazines, 29 rounds of live ammunition.
In another development, the state police boss disclosed that operatives arrested four suspects linked to a notorious cultist, Daddy Chukwu, who was traced to his hideout in Delta State and killed early this year by the police after they shot and k!lled a community leader, Chief Ndidi Livingstone, in the presence of his family.
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