Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command, Octopus Strike Force on Thursday arrested one Nnali Osita, a member of a notorious car snatching Syndicate that specialises in robbing Bolt/Uber drivers in the State.
Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka Friday in a release signed by the command’s spokesperson, SP Nnamdi Omoni said the suspect was arrested after one Yusuf Ogunshola, a Delta State Bolt driver reported as case of car snatching to the command.
The CP disclosed the the command, “While solving a Case of Car snatching reported by one Yusuf Ogunshola, a Bolt driver who was hired from Effurun in Delta State to Port Harcourt, only to be taken to Abel Jumbo street in Mile Two Diobu PH, where two other members were already waiting.
“On arrival, the Bolt driver was attacked at gunpoint and dispossessed of his personal belongings, including withdrawing the sum of #87,000 from his Bank Account. He was thereafter locked in a Toilet belonging to a new Generation Church on the same street”.
He said, in the course of investigation, operatives got some clues which led them to Gambia street in Diobu, where the hoodlums had perfected plans to sell the said Car.
According to him, the hoodlums, on sighting the Police abandoned the car and fled, while the suspect; Nnali Osita was arrested.
He, however disclosed that efforts have been intensified to fleeing members of the gang as well as recovering their operational weapons.
The CP who however vowed to crush all miscreants terrorizing the state advised all Bolt/Uber and any body in the Transportation business to be circumspect and shun all mouth watering offers; being the antics deployed by criminals to attack their victims.
