Police arrest Senator’s son over robbery

A former senator’s son is being remanded in prison over his involvement in an armed robbery in Abuja. Informed police sources revealed to the Nigerian Tribune that the former senator’s son from Ekiti State had led a gang of armed robbers to rob a 6:19:02 PM colonel, names withheld, at Mbora Estate, where his AK-47 rifle and other valuable items were removed. The source disclosed that the robbery operation, which took place on July 5, resulted in the arrest of the ex- senator’s son, names withheld. The sources said that in the process of investigation, operatives from the Special Anti -Robbery Squad working on information, subsequently arrested the suspect and while a search was conducted in his house around Life Camp area, Abuja, 16 live cartridges and some other incriminating exhibits were recovered from the suspects house. During interrogation, the suspect was alleged to belong to a notorious armed robbery gang that had been terrorising the FCT and its environs. The suspect reportedly told his investigators that his friend, an Igbo boy, brought the gun and the cartridges to his house and that the boy had gone back to the East with the intention of bringing more arms and ammunitions. He, however, denied participating in the robbery attack on the colonel’s house at Mbora Estate. He confirmed that the said Igbo boy brought two laptop computers robbed at gun point to him, which he sold in the GSM Village, Abuja.