Top Nigerian prison officer is arrested for alleged armed robbery
- The police commissioner in Enugu state, Mohammed Danmallam, says Collins Ugwu was arrested with his gang
- Danmallam reveals how Ugwu, who worked with the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), was arrested
- Apart from alleged robbery, the officer and his gang were reportedly involved in other criminal activities
Collins Ugwu, a deputy superintendent in the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has been reportedly arrested by men of the Enugu command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on suspicion of armed robbery.
The Punch reports that Ugwu, a native of Ezza in Ebonyi state, residing in Abuja where he works at the headquarters of the NPS, was reportedly caught in Enugu on June 26.
Ugwu was said to have been arrested alongside alleged accomplices, whose names were given as Ifeanyi Ozor, a native of Enugu state residing in Abuja; and Smart Osetu, from Oguta in Imo.
The commissioner of police in Enugu state, Mohammed Danmallam, confirmed this while parading the suspects.
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According to him, the prison officer and his gang were not only involved in armed robbery but were also involved in conspiracy, malicious damage, stealing and ‘obtaining by tricks.’
“The suspects (Ugwu, Ozor and Osetu) belonged to a syndicate that specialised in monitoring anyone that had gone to the bank to make withdrawals and trailed them to a point where they could smartly force the door or the windscreen (of the victims’ cars) open with their instrument and steal the said amount.
“They were also a part of a syndicate that bought goods from traders and generated fake payment alert to the owners of the goods without him knowing.
“They were nabbed along Ogui Road, Enugu, by the operatives of the Enugu state police command on June 26, 2018, following intelligence information gathered concerning their nefarious activities,” he said.
Some of the items reportedly recovered from the suspects included a Golf car with registration number Abuja RBC 220 KF, a broken plug which they allegedly used in ‘scratching down’ windows of cars when they wanted to steal from their victims.
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Ugwu refused to speak with journalists concerning why he reportedly got involved in criminal activities.
Legit.ng earlier reported that the Lagos state police command arrested a 39-year-old fake medical practitioner, Abdulrahman Mohammed, for allegedly owning a clinic and practicing medicine for four years without any license.
Mohammed, who dropped out of primary school, reportedly has a clinic in Idi-Araba area, Mushin, Lagos state where he administered intravenous injections to patients and prescribe dr*gs for ailments.
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