The Rivers State Police Command stated it’s closing in on infamous cult chief, Reward Okpara, declared needed for the homicide of the Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada, Bako Angbashin in September 2023.
Earlier stories had revealed that the late Angbashim was deceived by the dare-devil cultists who tricked him that they had been keen to submit their weapons and embrace amnesty.
Nonetheless, the command stated it had recovered 4 20-KVA generator units from the hideout of Okpara popularly often known as ‘2-Baba’ which he seized from an organization.
In accordance with the police, the needed chief of the Iceland cult group had seized the property from an unnamed firm for refusing to pay him N20m unlawful levy dubbed ‘matching floor’ imposed on individuals or organisations by cultists in some communities.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Olugbenga Adepoju, disclosed this to newsmen whereas handing over the property (4 20-KVA mills) again to the corporate in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
DCP Adepoju said, “I’m right here representing the Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, immediately handy some Perkins mills, 4 that had been recovered by our tactical groups seized by the infamous most needed prison in Rivers, David Reward aka 2 Baba and his gang who killed SP Bako Angbashin DPO of Ahoada Police Division some months again.
“These mills had been intercepted by him (2 Baba) some months in the past whereas going to a location for use by the corporate at Odiemude neighborhood in Ahoada East Native Authorities Space.
“He seized it and was demanding N20m, 5 million naira for every generator earlier than it may very well be launched to the corporate.
“Whereas we had been on the seek for him, we had been capable of detect the mills in his hideout. Our males tactically cordoned off the place and recovered the mills.
“Now we have the mills right here with us. At the moment we wish to current it to the corporate. I don’t wish to point out the identify of the corporate for safety causes.
“They’re right here with us now. That is one among our achievements. We’re nonetheless on his path and by the grace of God we’ll get him.”
The DCP, Operations stated the command will make the state uninhabitable for prison components by chasing them to their hideouts wherever they could be.
Adepoju added, “We’re warning each different one that desires to deliver again criminality to the system whereas urging anybody whose property these individuals are nonetheless with to report formally to the command so that we’ll do the needful.”
In the meantime one of many representatives of the corporate in an interview with journalists thanked the Police for his or her efforts in recovering the property.
In accordance with him, “I wish to seize this chance to thank the Rivers State Police Command for this feat. These mills had been confiscated some months in the past and all efforts to recuperate them failed and we reported them to the Police.
“They did a really incredible job even sacrificing their males to recuperate our property and likewise handing them over to us peacefully with none strings connected.
“That is commendable I’ve recognized the CP for a very long time. He is an efficient Police officer with a number of respect accorded to him.”
Though the first suspect continues to be at massive, Onyekachi Okowa, 2-Baba’s second-in-command, was apprehended by the police in November 2023.
