{"id":38593,"date":"2013-03-06T01:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/03\/ex-bakassi-member-arrested-for-alleged-robbery\/"},"modified":"2013-03-06T01:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:52:51","slug":"ex-bakassi-member-arrested-for-alleged-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/03\/06\/ex-bakassi-member-arrested-for-alleged-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-\u2019Bakassi\u2019 member arrested for alleged robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"87\">\n<p>BY IFEANYI OKOLIE &amp; DONALD ARJI<br \/>LAGOS \u2014\u00a0The Ilemba Police Division, yesterday, said it has arrested a suspected armed robber said to have been terrorizing the residents of Sabo Oniba community of Ojo local Government Area .<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as Christain Umini, 22, said to be a dismissed member of the proscribed vigilante group in the community, \u201cBakassi\u201d, reportedly used a gun-like object to dispose his victims of their property.<\/p>\n<p>He also allegedly confessed that he was responsible for the vandalisation of a car owned by a community head and other residents of the community, claiming that he ventured into robbery because of his dismissal from the community vigilante.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI decided to venture into robbery after I was dismissed from the community vigilante group. As a former member of the group, I knew the nooks and crannies of the community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources confirmed the arrest to <em>Vanguard,<\/em> adding that the suspect will soon be charged to court after further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, two suspects accused of drugging and robbing a Chinese national, Zhang Bafan, in his hotel room at Ojo area of Lagos State, have petitioned the Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar, over alleged attempts by the Area E Commander, Dan Okoro, to circumvent\u00a0 investigation, illegal arrest and prolonged detention.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Okoro, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, however told <em>Vanguard,<\/em> that he was aware of the petition explaining that the suspects were arrested following complaints from a Chinese national who accused them of drugging and robbing him.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects identified as Rowland Okorie and Ifeanyi Ndubisi, who were paraded last Wednesday, by the Area E Commander before newsmen at the State Command Headquarters, Ikeja, told <em>Vanguard<\/em> that they\u2019ve been detained for more that 13 days by the area commander on a crime they didn\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BY IFEANYI OKOLIE &amp; DONALD ARJILAGOS \u2014\u00a0The Ilemba Police Division, yesterday, said it has arrested a suspected armed robber said to have been terrorizing the residents of Sabo Oniba community of Ojo local Government Area . The suspect, identified as Christain Umini, 22, said to be a dismissed member of the proscribed vigilante group in the community, \u201cBakassi\u201d, reportedly used a gun-like object to dispose his victims of their property. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}