Police Arrest 54 Suspects, Repel Sea Piracy Attack In A’Ibom
Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested 54 suspects in different operations across the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Baba Azare, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing newsmen on the successes of the command in the past month.
Azare said that the marine operatives of the command also repelled a sea piracy attack on fishermen along the Oron-Calabar waterways.
According to him, the marine operatives were conducting a search and rescue operation along the waterways on May 10, at about noon when they received a tip-off about an ongoing sea pirate attack.
The operatives, according to the commissioner arrived at the scene, engaging the hoodlums who eventually escaped into the shallow creek.
He disclosed that the operatives stormed the creek and recovered a W23 speedboat fitted with a 200 HP Yamaha engine gearbox.
Others include a 15HP Yamaha engine dismantled engine parts, one Dane gun, one improvised toolbox, one engine petrol generator, and one OX standing fan.
Other items also recovered include one rubber container with materials suspected to be charms; one white candle, one black wallet containing, one WAEC ID card, and others.
The commissioner said that during the period under review, the command also recorded the arrest of suspected cultists and the recovery of firearms.
Other breakthroughs, according to the commissioner, include the arrest of suspected burglary syndicate/cultists and the foiling of pipeline vandalism and recovery of tools.
He said, “On the 9th of May, 2025 at about 05:05hrs, operatives of the Command responding to a distress call reporting the presence of a suspected pipeline vandal at Ikot Oboron, the police swiftly dispatched to the location, intercepted and arrested one Ekwere Obiowo Ernest, a 36-year-old male, native of Ukam in Edemeya clan, in the act of vandalising oil pipelines.”
He listed the items recovered from the pipe vandals to include one fireman, FGP 088EG Generator, one filing iron, various types of spanners, and a Siemens Germany toolbox, among others.
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