CALABAR— Cross River State Command of Nigeria Immigration Service has
arrested a final year student of College of Education, Akamkpa, for
alleged armed robbery and no fewer than 10 illegal immigrants in
Calabar.
State Comptroller of Immigration, Mr. Samuel Ogwiji, said the
Monitoring and Surveillance team he set up carried out a raid in the
state capital and arrested the illegal immigrants, who were mainly from
Republic of Mali and other neighbouring countries.
Ogwiji said about four persons suspected to be armed robbers were
sighted by his men in an uncompleted building near Atekong Street,
Calabar, in the early hours of Wednesday but three ran away when
confronted as one was unlucky as he was arrested.
Speaking with newsmen, the armed robbery suspect and final student of
Department of Mathematics from Etung Local Government Area of the state
claimed that his friend invited him for a club outing in Calabar and
that he never knew what he was into before the security operatives
picked him up
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