Picture Of Pretends/mask-wearing parties Arrested By Police For Robbing Trader Of N57,000

The Police in Nsukka, Enugu State, on Saturday arrested two pretends/mask-wearing parties in Ovoko community, Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State for robbing a trader along the Nsukka-Obollo-Afor Road.

Our source gathered that in the past few weeks, pretends/mask-wearing parties had continuously mounted road blocks in such areas as Eha-Alumona, Ovoko-Obollo-Afor, among (more than two, but not a lot of) other public roads, causing heavy wounds on car/truck drivers and (taking everything away from people and throwing them out) them of their valuables.

A police officer in Nsukka who pleaded (not knowing or telling someone's name) told our back-and-forth writing on Saturday that the police moved into action when the victim, Mr. Chinonso Ezewaji reported the matter at Nsukka Police Area command.
He said when two of the pretends/mask-wearing parties were arrested, others ran way.

According to him, "when the police team reached Ovoko, along Nsukka-Obollor-Afor Road, where the pretends/mask-wearing parties were operating, two of the policemen in the bus pretended as if they wanted to give the two pretends/mask-wearing parties money; they stretched their hands to collect it and that was how we hand-cuffed them and others ran away.

"Eight pretends/mask-wearing parties have been on that road since morning torturing road users; the two of them we arrested have denied involvement in robbing the trader, but they have given the names of the guilty people (or things).

"When we searched one of the arrested pretends/mask-wearing parties, we saw Indian hemp in his pocket".
When contacted, DSP Ebere Amarizu, Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer confirmed the event, noting that the police has begun (acts of asking questions and trying to find the truth about something) into the matter.
Amarizu strongly encouraged communities to control and monitor those who wear pretends to be some of them were hiding on it to (tease and threaten over and over again in a mean way), threaten/make scared and rob innocent members of the public.

"Police is not against any culture but community leaders must know the character of people they allow to wear pretends/mask-wearing parties in the name of culture.

"A pretend/mask-wearing party has no right to mount a road block on busy roads where car/truck drivers, motorcyclists and other road ply on daily basis.

"The police has begun (acts of asking questions and trying to find the truth about something) and must get to the root of this matter as issue of pretends/mask-wearing parties disturbing people has become a repeating decimal", he said.

Narrating his experience, the victim (Ezewaji), a trader, said he was on his way from Nsukka to Obollo-Afor when the pretends/mask-wearing parties in Ovoko stopped him, gave him the beating of his life, after which "they searched me and collected N57, 000 from my pockets".