NOT less than 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.
