{"id":114245,"date":"2019-05-06T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=114245"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:59:40","slug":"police-arrest-ani-wanted-robber-cultist-in-enugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=114245","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Ani, wanted robber, cultist in Enugu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The police command in Enugu State has arrested a 23-year-old suspected notorious armed robber and cultist, Chukwuebuka Ani, who had been operating within Enugu metropolis and 9th Mile areas of the state.<\/p>\n

The operatives of the command also recovered a locally-made double barrel pistol from the suspect.<\/p>\n

The Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement in Enugu on Monday, said that the suspect was arrested on May 3 by the Command\u2019s Anti-Cultism Unit.<\/p>\n

Amaraizu noted that Ani, also known as Chi, was arrested through intelligence gathering in the early hours of May 3 at his hideout at Ugbene-1 axis of Abakpa within the outskirt of Enugu metropolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was gathered that the suspect had before now allegedly involved himself alongside with Chigozie alias SMS and others at large in nefarious activities ranging from cultism and armed robbery in Abakpa, Independence layout and 9th mile areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was further gathered that the suspect is the Coordinator\/Executioner of Ayees Confraternity within Abakpa axis and its environs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was initiated into Ayees cult in 2012 at Alulu Nike by one Ikechukwu also known as 6-months, who is no longer in Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The police spokesman said that the 23-year-old suspect, who also sells marijuana, hails from Umuodimegwu Amaozalla village in Affa community in Udi Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state Commissioner of Police, Mr Sulaiman Balarabe, has directed for a full scale investigation into the activities of the suspect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Command through its Public Relations Department has intensified campaign against cultism and other vices with a view to saving youths from the claws of cultism and other vices,\u2019\u2019 he added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The police command in Enugu State has arrested a 23-year-old suspected notorious armed robber and cultist, Chukwuebuka Ani, who had been operating within Enugu metropolis and 9th Mile areas of the state. The operatives of the command also recovered a locally-made double barrel pistol from the suspect. The Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ebere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}