The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two newly relocated robbery suspects who specializes in stealing motorcycles and robbing people of money.
Police investigations confirmed that the two suspects had, within this year, stolen three motorcycles, one of which is now at the Borokiri Police Station in Port Harcourt. Two of the motorcycles were stolen from where their owners parked them along Choba Road and Eliozu respectively.
investigations also showed that the suspects both relocated to Port Harcourt last year following the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) crisis in Imo State and other parts of the South East.
The suspects whose names were given as Ikenna Obiko, 30 years old, and Isichukwu Eneji, 24 years old, were apprehended recently at Olu Obasanjo area of Port Harcourt, the state capital while riding a motorcycle.
The duo confessed to the crimes, stating they “specialized in robbing victims of their money and property inside parked cars using specialized keys”.
The two suspests admitted to “stealing parked motorcycles by using ignition wires to start them”, as well as robbing unsuspecting bank customers of their money after withdrawal at banks and Automated Teller Machine, ATM, centers.
The suspects were recently involved in a robbery case involving a Noodles vehicle where they took one hundred thousand Naira (N100,000) from the driver.
Both suspects, who are now in police custody, hail from Oguta in Imo State. While Ikenna is married to a wife and two children, Isichukwu has a wife and three children.
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, has directed that the two suspects be charged to court, urging members of the public to continue to be law-abiding and support the police in the fight to rid Rivers State of crimes and criminality.