The Rivers Police Command has arrested two bank robbery suspects notorious for stealing motorcycles and robbing customers of their hard-earned money.

The suspects Ikenna Obiko, 30 and Isichukwu Eneji, 24; were reportedly arrested at Olu Obasanjo area of Port Harcourt while riding a motorcycle.

The suspects were said to have confessed to the crimes, saying they specialised in robbing victims of their money and property inside parked cars using master keys.

They were said to have further admitted to stealing parked motorcycles by using ignition wires to start them and confessed to robbing unsuspecting bank customers of their money after withdrawal at banks and ATM centers.

The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Grace Iringe-Koko, confirmed that the two suspects were recently linked to robbery case involving an Indomie Noodles vehicle where they took N100,000 from the driver.

Iringe-Koko said investigations revealed that the two suspects had, within this year, stolen three motorcycles, one of which is curently at the Borokiri Police Station in Port Harcourt.

She said: “Two of the motorcycles were stolen from where their owners parked them along Choba Road and Eliozu respectively.

“Both suspects, now in police custody at the Borokiri Police Station, hail from Oguta in Imo State. While Ikenna is married to a wife and two children, Isichukwu has a wife and three children.

“Police investigations show that the suspects both relocated to Port Harcourt last year following the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) crisis in Imo State and other parts of the South East.

“While Ikenna said he was lured into crime by one of his community leaders (now deceased), Isichukwu said his late uncle tutored him in the act of robbery,” she added.

Iringe-Koko said the Rivers Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, had directed that the two suspects be charged immediately in an appropriate court of law.

She said the police boss urged members of the public to continue to be law-abiding and support the police in the fight to rid Rivers State of crimes and criminality. (The Nation)

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