Bayelsa Police Nab Three Robbery Suspects

The Bayelsa Police Command has nabbed three people described as cross-state robbery suspects.

The suspects who gave their names as Belief Okeremu, Solomon James and Christian Atima were alleged to have started their robbery operations from Lagos, Delta and Bayelsa.

According to Police Commissioner, Mr Chris Olakpe, on the fateful day, the suspects had along a route to Elebele Village near the state capital, approached their victim with pretense to charter his vehicle.

However, on getting to a point, the suspects stopped the car and ordered the victim after shooting severally at him, before they made away with the vehicle, but luck ran out of them when following a tip off, members of the Police Anti-robbery squad caught them.

The suspects confessed that they had been robbing people, while claiming that the gun used were got at a village in Delta State.

Meanwhile, the State Police Command has got a new Public Relations Officer. He is Fidelis Odunna, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).

Odunna, lawyer, and former member of Police Mobile Force attached to Onitsha Police Command is married with children.

He replaced Mr Eguavbo Emuokpae who had been redeployed to general investigation department.