486 suspected insurgents
including eight females were said to have been arrested by the military
personnel of the 144 battalion of the Nigerian Army with base at Asa in
Ukwa West council of Abia State.
Abia State Information Commissioner, Chief
Eze Chikamnayo, who took some reporters to the military camp yesterday
to see the suspects said they were arrested around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday
along Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway at Arongwa area called Imo
Gate, which is a boundary between Abia and Rivers states.
He said that the suspects whose ages were
from 15 years were traveling on 35 buses from undisclosed northern
states to the South South. He said that they claimed to be going to
search for jobs, adding that two of the buses later escaped.
The commissioner urged members of the public
to be more security conscious and report strange persons and suspects to
the security agencies.
Reacting to the incident, the state Police
Public Relations Officer ( PPRO), Mr. Geoffery Ogbonna, said that
the matter was a military one and had not been reported to the police
command.
He said that when he contacted the Army
Public Relations Officer in the state whose name he did not mention, he
told him ( PPRO) that he was not yet aware of the matter.
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