Police arrest 7 suspected militants in Ibadan
By Adebayo Waheed
Friday, August 7, 2009
OYO State Police Command, on Thursday, arrested seven people suspected to be militants, at Ring Road, Ibadan, with one of them said to have dressed in an army uniform.


This, it was learnt, made the people to suspect them as they were said to have looked like some of the armed robbers who attacked three banks in Ogbomoso on Wednesday.


It was gathered that the need to avert what happened in Ogbomoso, and the attack on an old generation bank in the area early this year, made the residents to become suspicious of their movements.


According to source, the movements of the suspects were suspicious and this led to their arrest by policemen who were on patrol.


When the Nigerian Tribune visited the area, it was learnt that the suspects were moving around the area without any specific destination when the people raised the alarm leading to their arrest.


A senior police officer, who was involved in the arrest of the suspect, confirmed that they were militants from the Niger Delta area.


He said that the suspects had been transferred to the Monitoring Unit of the Police Command for further interrogation.


When contacted, the Police image maker, DSP Olabisi Okuwobi, confirmed the arrest of the seven people, including the one who dressed in military uniform.


DSP Okuwobi, who refused to give more details, said the suspects were being interrogated.


Meanwhile, the police in the state have declared that 469 expended cartridges and 200 rounds of AK47 ammunition with four magazines were recovered from the scene of the Wednesday robbery incident in Ogbomoso.

Yawa don gas, everybody dey catch militant, what happened to old fashioned armed robbers?

I hope they have more evidence to support the fact that these people are indeed ND militants. If not, watchout for vigilante justice for anybody arrested anywhere anytime.

Afaukwu, will you stop spreading disinformation

Nowhere in the article is Niger-Delta mentioned. The suspects tribe is not even revealed.

Militant is the new buzzword. Boko-Haram militants, MEND militants, kidnapping militants, and now Armed Robbery militants.

Just call everyone a militant and you have the moral jurisdiction to carry out extra-judicial measures against them.

Very soon we will start hearing Alaye millitant, bus conductor millitant, governor millitant, civil servant millitant, NYSC millitant.

Nigeria is heading to an end.

Ibime:

Afaukwu, will you stop spreading disinformation

Nowhere in the article is Niger-Delta mentioned. The suspects tribe is not even revealed.

Militant is the new buzzword. Boko-Haram militants, MEND militants, kidnapping militants, and now Armed Robbery militants.

Just call everyone a militant and you have the moral jurisdiction to carry out extra-judicial measures against them.

Did you read the article with your eyes closed? Go back and read it more slowly. Hurry hurry no too good

olabukola:

Very soon we will start hearing Alaye millitant, bus conductor millitant, governor millitant, civil servant millitant, NYSC millitant.

Nigeria is heading to an end.

Ibime:


Militant is the new buzzword. Boko-Haram militants, MEND militants, kidnapping militants, and now Armed Robbery militants.

Just call everyone a militant and you have the moral jurisdiction to carry out extra-judicial measures against them.

ha! ha!!    we will soon have[b] nairaland militants[/b]!