Police arrest masquerades for armed robbery

The Enugu state police command on Saturday arrested two masquerades for alleged armed robbery.

A police bulletin sent by the command’s spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu indicated that it was a new ploy of armed robbery operations.

The new dimension occurred at Ovoko in Igboeze South local council of the Nsukka area command.

According to Amaraizu, the two masquerades “allegedly robbed a member of the public some amount of money to the tune of about seventy thousand naira as well as some other valuables amongst other things.‎”

He said the police have commenced a full scale investigations into the alleged incident of robbing by masquerading.

It was gathered that the two men behind the masquerades were already helping operatives in their investigations.

The police,however, advised masqurade operators to always be law abiding and respect the tenets of culture and remain law abiding in the operations of masquarade as well as its activities in the state.