Posted by The Port Harcourt Telegraph on
The police at the weekend delivered a clear warning it would no longer allow robbers and other miscreants the chance to hold law abiding citizens and corporate organizations to ransom.
The police at the weekend delivered a clear warning it would no longer allow robbers and other miscreants the chance to hold law abiding citizens and corporate organizations to ransom.
A gang of robbers who probably thought it was still business as usual got a taste of the package the police is offering.
The rogues who came in a bus and a Volkswagen Golf car decided to target the All States Trust Bank at Ahoada.
In the process, gun fire erupted between the robbers and agile cops who were drawn to the scene.
By the time the gun battle was over the police had succeeded in killing two of them and impounding their vehicles as well as weapons.
There were however, reports that the police may have suffered losses too. But the police response, coming shortly after it declared some people wanted, drew approval from local people, with some of them saying they were at last waking up from slumber.
In Port Harcourt, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Samuel Adetuyi briefed the media and displayed the items recovered from the hoodlums.
Adetuyi said the force was poised than ever before to deal with miscreants and robbers who had been ravaging the oil rich state that is among the fastest growing cities in the African continent.
He assured members of the public that the police would defend lives and property and called for cooperation.