Two undergraduates have been arrested by the The Benue State Police Command for armed Robbery in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State.
This was confirmed in a statement by the spokesperson of the State Police Command, Catherine Anene, on Tuesday.
The suspects, who were said to be students of Joseph Sawuan Tarka University, Makurdi, formerly the Federal University of Agriculture, were identified as Sapele Great and Hakem Adi.
They were arrested on June 15, 2022 by a team of detectives.
She added: “The robbers transferred N300,000 from the victim’s accounts using the stolen ATM cards.“The CP deployed a team of detectives to trail and arrest the suspects but the suspects, who knew that they were being trailed, took to their heels until June 15, 2022, when two of the suspects, Sapele Great and Hakem Joseph Adi, of different addresses in Makurdi, were arrested.”
Anene listed items recovered from the suspects to include one locally-made pistol loaded with nine rounds of 6mm live ammunition, eight stolen phones, one electronic shocking device, 18 SIM cards of different networks, one United Bank for Africa cheque book belonging to one Agasha Philemon Assume, and other electronic devices.
She added: “These suspects confessed to being cultists, armed robbers and fraudsters.
“The investigation is ongoing to arrest other suspects involved.”
