This is contained in a statement by the institution’s Director, Public Relations and Protocol, Uredo Omale in Lokoja on Wednesday.
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Commandant of NSCDC in Cross River, Samuel Fadeyi, who disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Calabar, said the suspects were arrested in a hotel in Calabar after the Corps noticed their suspicious moves.
The spokesman of the DSP Edafe Bright, confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday.
The spokesperson of the Command, Mariam Yusuf, revealed this in a statement on Sunday.
The police prosecutors filed thirteen (13) counts against the suspects for various offences, including conspiracy, murder, cultism, unlawful possession of firearms and breach of public peace under the new Lagos State Anti Cultism Law, 2021 and Criminal Laws of the Lagos State, 2015.
The command’s public relations officer, SP Godson Orlando Ikeokwu, gave the names of the suspects as Okorafor Chinyere Favour ‘f’ 35; Chukwuka Christian ‘m’ 41; Ekene Obimara ‘m’ 21; Ogbonna Sampson ‘m’ 24, and Ebuka Okoronkwo ‘m’ 23.
DSP Edafe Bright, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, said this in a statement on Thursday in Warri.
This was contained in a statement by the spokeswoman of the Command, Mariam Yusuf, on Sunday.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mukaddas Garba, told newsmen that the command also recovered 13 guns, 20 cutlasses/knives, five live ammunition, five cartridges, army uniforms, bullet proof jacket, among others, from the suspects.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement in Lagos on Sunday that the suspects attacked some vigilantees in the area called “Agbekoya.”
The accused — Ridwan Akande (22) and Oluwagbotemi Oni (22) — of no fixed addresses, are facing a charge of murder.