Police arrest 24 suspects after raiding criminal hideouts in Imo forests

The Imo State Police Command, successful intensified operations, has arrested 24 suspects successful antithetic locations wrong bushes successful Owerri West LGA for assorted transgression offences.

The cognition that led to the apprehension of the suspects is successful enactment with proactive information measures enactment successful spot by the State Commissioner of Police, CP Audu Garba Bosso, to nip successful the bud the alleged kidnapping and convulsive incidents reported successful parts of Owerri West LGA of the state.

According to the command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye, the latest cognition was carried retired by operatives of the Owerri Urban Division, led by the Area Commander, Michael Abatam, successful collaboration with vigilantes of the State Security Organization, arsenic they embarked connected an intensive combing cognition crossed forested areas wrong Eziobodo, Ihiagwa, Nekede, and Okomochi communities.

Okoye informed that the cognition progressive the deployment of implicit 250 constabulary unit and vigilante operatives successful hunt of suspected transgression hideouts and achromatic spots wrong the forested areas, with the purpose of wholly eradicating transgression activities and restoring nationalist assurance successful the affected communities.

The command’s spokesperson hinted that during the operation, a full of 24 suspects were arrested from antithetic locations wrong the forests.

Some of the arrested suspects see 21-year-old Jonah Abotu...