Police raid criminals’ camps in Rivers, recover arms, ammunition

<p>The Rivers State Police Command has raided the camp of General Danger, a notorious cultist in Ahoada, and neutralized a member of his gang.</p>, <p>The state Commissioner of Police, Nwonyi Polycarp-Emeka, who spoke in a media briefing at the Command Headquarters in Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, on Thursday, said General Danger and another suspected notorious cultist identified as Double Chief narrowly escaped.</p>, <p>The CP revealed that arms and ammunition were recovered during the raid, including one AK-47 rifle, five magazines loaded with 51 live ammunition, GPMG live ammunition and assorted charms.</p>, <p>CP Polycarp-Emeka, on other achievements of the Command under his leadership, also noted that a camp of criminals in Igwuruta, the Ikwerre Local Government Area, was raided, adding that one suspect was killed while efforts were on to arrest fleeing suspects.</p>, <p>According to the CP, operatives of the C41 intelligence unit of the Command also arrested a suspect who ran to Ogun State after participating in the killing of Justice Azunda, the late Protocol Officer to Chief of Staff to the former Governor of the state.</p>, <p>He explained that the suspect confessed to collecting N2 million from the family of Azunda before he was killed.</p>, <p>“During interrogation the suspect confessed to have collected the sum of N2 million through a bank transaction from the family of the victim before he was murdered,” he said.</p>, <p>The CP further stated that on the 20th of July, 2023, members of the same kidnapping gang engaged the police in a fierce battle and one Uchendu Azunda was fatally wounded after operatives of the C41 intelligence unit received a distress call that armed robbers were operating at Ikwerre road, which they immediately swung into action and recovered a snatched black jeep and arrested the suspects.</p>, <p>DAILY POST reports that six suspects were paraded with charms, arms and ammunition at the Command Headquarters in Port Harcourt.</p>