Three police officers and two other men who specialise in kidnapping and robbing motorists and other road users in Enugu State have been arrested.
The suspects were in the acts of mounting illegal road blocks while wearing uniforms of the Nigerian Army and Police and terrorising innocent drivers and passengers.
The arrested police personnel identified themselves as Inspector Tache Egbe and working in Anambra State; Inspector James Mamah attached to Obosi in Anambra State and one officer identified as Odumodu from the same state.
Two other suspects, John and Onyeka Onyeza were said to be commercial drivers who specialise in driving illegal oil bunkers and their commodities.
It was gathered that the policemen escorted some oil bunkers from Anambra State to Obollo-Afor in Enugu State and on their way returning, they intercepted a fuel tanker driven by one Hausa man.
The security agents, alongside the other two suspects, allegedly blocked the tanker driver and claimed they were IGP Petroleum Squad.
They told the driver they were taking him to their office but along the way, they brought the victim down to Ohodo town in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State and took him inside a bush where they tied his hands and legs down and left him there.
Findings revealed that the suspects drove the tanker to a petrol station in Obollo-Afor and discharged the petrol there. Afterwards, they allegedly took the tanker to a community in Benue State and abandoned it there.
However, luck ran against them when they returned to Obollo-Afor to fortify themselves at a herbalist’s shrine as a police team from Obollo-Afor Division swooped on them upon tips and arrested them.
It was gathered that the police collaborated with Neighbourhood Watch of Amalla-Egazi, a community in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu in apprehending the culprits.
Items such as two AK-47, one Beretta pistol, four fully loaded magazines, and charms of different assortments, phones, uniforms of Nigerian Army and Police and outdated identity cards were found on them.
The suspects were said to be in the habit of mounting roadblocks and terrorising motorists and others who ply the road by robbing and kidnapping them.
