Police Nab Three Sea Pirates In Rivers

Operatives of the Commissioner of Police Crack Squad (CP’s Cracks Squad) of the Marine Police Section of the Rivers State Command, have arrested a three-man sea pirate gang who were alleged to have been responsible for several high profile hijack and kidnapping across waterways in the state, especially, within the Kalabari axis.
The suspects were arrested on the 28th of July this year  in a combined operation by the CP’s crack squad and men of the marine police.
The arrested sea pirate suspects include Noble Ngiagia, Ibinatem Agbani, Lawson and Samuel Monime Princewill.
The state Commissioner of Police, CP Zaki Mohammed Ahmed while briefing newsmen in his office in Port Harcourt, at the weekend, disclosed that the suspects had been identified by persons and relations of the people they murdered, kidnapped and robbed.
Mr Zaki further disclosed that the gang on 23rd June, 3rd September and 18th November, 2016 attacked the Marine Police and killed four police men attached to the division.
According to him, “they attacked marine police and cartered away two AK 47 riffles with 120 rounds of live ammunition, one assault riffle with 40 rounds of live ammunitions, one assault rifle with 40 round of ammunition,two GL with eleven (11) rounds, two general purpose  machine gun (GMG) with one thousand rounds of live ammunition and double 200hp Yamaha engine, four assault riffles with 219 rounds live ammunition 5.5mm, two GPMG with one thousand (1000) rounds of live ammunition 7.62mm and 150hp Yamaha engine” he stated.
The state commissioner of police further disclosed that the suspects were  also responsible for the attack on Agbakiri-Tombia that led to the killing of one mobile policeman from 10 Police Mobile Force, Bauchi as well as the killing of one Ofingite Amachree in Buguma, whose corpse was also burnt by the gang.
The state police boss averred that one English made Barreta, wraps of some weeds suspected to be  Indian hemp and large quantities of drugs suspected to be cocaine were recovered from them.