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Police Arrest 300 Suspects, Recover 43 Bombs, 40 Stolen Vehicles in Anambra
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The Anambra police command says its operatives arrested no fewer than 300 suspects for different crimes, recovered 43 improvised explosive devices and 40 stolen vehicles in different parts of the state in the past one year.

The police also rescued 14 kidnapped victims, including three children stolen from Bauchi state in 2024.

The State Commissioner of Police, Nnaghe Obono Itam, disclosed this on Monday at the Police Command Headquarters in Amawbia while briefing newsmen on some of the feats and breakthrough recorded by the Command between January 2024 and January 2025.

Itam said the police also recovered over one hundred (100) different brands of arms and over two thousand, nine hundred and thirty-seven (2,937) ammunition of various types.

He said the command recorded the breakthroughs in collaboration with other security agencies.

Other accomplishments of the police within the period under review include: recovery of different brands of motorcycles, securing over thirty (30) convictions, elimination of the Master-minds of the attack on Police Operatives attached to RRS in Uruagu Nnewi; the arrest of an 18-year-old boy over a planned cult killing in Nibo and the destructions of so many criminal camps, but the most notable is that of Nimo, Njikoka local government area, which led to the recovery of 19 unexploded devices.

The commissioner of police stated that the command will in 2025 consolidate its gains in crime prevention and restoration of law and order.

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