Afimag.com –
A suspected ritualist, Edu Udeme Ime, grabbed with a human skull, and other 269 criminals have been arrested in Akwa Ibom State.
The suspects were arrested by the State Police command over different crimes in raids of various locations across the State.
While parading the suspects at the state Command headquarters, the Commissioner of Police (CP), Olatoye Durosinmi, said the breakthrough became necessary after anti-crime raids of some crime -prone areas of the state.
Durosinmi said the Quick Response Squad (QRS) were able to track down the suspect and picked him up at Urua Ekpa Junction after a concrete intelligence.
He added that during a search, the team recovered a concealed human skull in his bag, noting that “the suspect could not give any reasonable explanation why he was in possession of human skull.”
The police boss said within the period under review, a total of 269 Suspects were apprehended for different offences, ranging from murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism, rape, stealing, amongst others.
He stated that the Command also arrested one Aniekan James, for murder after shooting his 35years only son, identified as Odudu Aniekan, following an argument, noting the suspect to be a habitual murderer, who had previously committed murders in Lagos and Aba in Abia state.
Others cooling their heels in Police net, the CP said, include two Airport vandals, five suspected cultists, three kidnapping suspects, among others, and assured that “all the suspects will be charged to court at the completion of Investigations.”
