L-R: President, Rotary Club of Port Harcourt North, Rtn Ele Idachiaba, immediate past President, Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Trans Amadi, Rtn Frank Eni, President Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Trans Amadi, Rtn Anne Azuoma Anyaka, Guest Lecturer, Dr. F. S. Babep, during the Media Day at Rotary Club of Port Harcourt on Monday.

The Rivers State Police
Command says it has recovered over 807 ammunition, 40 weapons of various specifications as well as six sacks of dynamites from suspected armed robbers across the State in two months.
The State Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo, stated this while briefing journalists at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) office in Rukpokwu, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, yesterday.
The Commissioner also said that the cache of arms and ammunition recovered from the criminals represents the achievements of the command from February till date, in addition to the figures already given on 12th of April, this year.
Giving further breakdown on the achievements, the state Police helmsman stated that the Command, within the period under review, arrested 80 armed robbery suspects, out of which 40 were fatally wounded, adding that 60 cultists were also arrested, out of which 20 of them were fatally wounded.
Kimo further disclosed that the Command recovered 30 Ak 47, 10 pump action guns, 12 IED and 15 vehicles, adding that the Command also rescued 18 kidnap victims.
The state CP said the essence of the briefing was to showcase the modest achievements recorded by the operatives of SARS last Monday along Psychiatric Hospital Road, Rumuigbo in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the State.
According to him, the  SARS operatives received a distress call from a member of the public at about 10 am informing them that he had seen his Toyota Avenza stolen five days earlier along Psychiatric Hospital Road in possession of two occupants but with different plate number.
He stated that the SARS Command led teams of the operatives and cordoned the area, adding that it was in the cause of the operation that the hoodlums blew up one of the Police Patrol vans with dynamites, adding that the hoodlums engaged the operatives in a gun battle, which led to the death of one of them, while the other was arrested.
The operatives recovered the stolen car, four AK 47 rifles, and 30 ammunition inside their operational vehicles,” he said.
“The Commissioner said he had communicated the development to the Inspector-General of Police, adding that the IGP has promised to replace the vehicle for the command.
He urged people to be more vigilant and partner with the Police in the on-going fight against criminals in the state.
The State Police boss, however, appealed to members of the public to keep calling the following Police distress lines: 08032003514, 08028915460, 08028915462, and 08160723892, to give timely and actionable information, adding that the Command would not relent until hoodlum are completely cleared from the state.