By Peter Okutu

ABAKALIKI—A syndicate that specializes in robbing unsuspecting citizens of the state of their monies, electronics and other household property, was, last weekend, arrested and paraded by Ebonyi State police command. The suspects who are all indigenes of Enugu State, include Okechukwu Okolie, 27, Nnabude Onwudiwe, 28, and Sunday Agu, 38.

Briefing newsmen at the command headquarters in Abakaliki, the State Police Public Relations Officers, DSP Chris Anyanwu, who disclosed that the suspects were arrested in a red-coloured Golf car with Registration Number Ondo AM 763 NND, added that one of their victims, Maureen Ekechi Nnebuife, 29, was swindled of N650,000.

“One of the miscreants feigned to have just arrived from Greece and didn’t know his way around town and needed to be directed to any nearby Eye Clinic for medication. ‘’While in the car, the said woman was dispossessed of sum of N50,000 cash which her husband sent her to deposit in a bank.

“Not yet done with her, the crooks forced her under threat to her mother’s residence at Onueke and robbed her of N600,000 cash which the poor woman trades with in her meat business,” he said.