Thursday, September 12, 2024 - Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a notorious cultist and armed robber posing as a cop to carry out numerous crimes.
The State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, disclosed this while
parading the fake inspector identified as Fred Monday, and other suspects
during a press briefing at the command headquarters in Port Harcourt on
Thursday, September 12, 2024.
The CP said the suspect was apprehended when operatives busted a cult
initiation involving students of the Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic.
According to the CP, the fake policeman, who confessed to being a member
of the Iceland cult group, provided cover for the students during the
initiation process.
Exhibits recovered from the suspect include one AK-47 rifle, 10
magazines and 29 rounds of live ammunition.
“On August 9, 2024, at about 11.45 pm, operatives of the
Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Rivers State Police Command responded to an
intelligence report of a criminal operation in Luegbo Community in Khana Local
Government Area,” the CP stated.
"On arriving at the scene, the Police met with an ongoing
gruesome Cult initiation process. Five suspects, later found to be students of
the Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic, were arrested.
"The students, Mduni Clement, Prosper Wonyingipreye, Kunle
Joseph, Eken Evans and Isaiah Elisha confessed to being members of the Vikings
confraternity. They have been charged in court and are presently in a
correctional centre.
"While carrying out the arrest of the five cultists, the
Police encountered a man with them, fully dressed in Police camouflage and
donning the rank of an Inspector of Police.
"He was armed with an AK-47 rifle, ten magazines and
twenty-nine rounds of live ammunition. He was taken into custody and after
interrogations, his identity was revealed as Fred Monday, a 31-year-old from
Wiyakara Community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State and resident
at F-man Close, Eneka Link Road, Port Harcourt.
"He confessed to being an impostor who bought the rifle in
2021 for NGN 850,000 from an accomplice, Goodluck aka Boy-J. He also bought ten
magazines, thirty-one rounds of ammunition and two hand grenades from the same
accomplice.
"He disclosed to the Police how he and other gang members
would disguise as Policemen to escort criminals to operate in different states,
including Akwa-Ibom, Edo, Delta and Rivers State.
"Fred Monday is a confessed member of the Iceland cult group and
has been carrying out numerous crimes using the cover of being a Policeman to
terrorise his victims.
"He is also an armed robber who operated as a Keke (tricycle)
rider during the day, scanning the area for possible victims to attack under
the cover of night.
“The investigation is still on as the Police is getting closer to
rounding up other members of his gang.”
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