Akwa Ibom: Police arrest two masquerades over alleged unlawful roadblock, extortion

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command says its operatives person arrested 2 Ekpo masquerades successful Etim Ekpo section authorities country of the authorities for their alleged engagement successful the obstruction of the Etim Ekpo–Azumini Road and extortion of unsuspecting motorists and pedestrians.

The Command's Public Relations Officer, DSP Timfon John, who disclosed this successful a connection connected Saturday, said speech from the obstruction of question caused by the unlawful roadblock, the nationalist was alarmed by the unsafe weapons utilized by the Ekpo masquerades.

"More concerning was the information that the suspects were reportedly equipped with machetes and different unsafe weapons, thereby creating fear, intimidation and unnecessary hostility among roadworthy users," she added.

She said the suspects, identified arsenic Godspower Ubong, male, and Blessing Jumbo, male, some of Utu Ikot Imonte Village, Etim Ekpo Local Government Area, were promptly arrested and taken into constabulary custody.

She said the Commissioner of Police, CP Baba Mohammed Azare, has stated that the Command recognises the value of taste practice and accepted institutions, and that taste expressions indispensable beryllium exercised wrong the confines of the instrumentality and with owed respect for pu...