The police have arrested a fake inspector fully dressed in police camouflage and armed with an AK47 rifle, 10 magazines, and 29 rounds of live ammunition at Luegbo Community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Olatunji Disu who identified the fake police as Fred Monday, said the 1 AK-47 rifle,10 magazines and 29 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the crime scene.
Narrating the circumstances that led to the arrest of Fred Monday said, “On August 9, 2024, at about 11.45 pm, operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Rivers State Police Command responded to an intelligence report of a criminal operation in Luegbo Community in Khana Local Government Area.
“On arriving at the scene, the police met with an ongoing gruesome cult initiation process. Five suspects, later found to be students of the Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic, were arrested.
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“The students, Mduni Clement, Prosper Wonyingipreye, Kunle Joseph, Eken Evans, and Isaiah Elisha confessed to being members of the Vikings confraternity. They have been charged in court and are presently in a correctional centre.
“While carrying out the arrest of the five cultists, the police encountered a man with them, fully dressed in Police camouflage and donning the rank of an Inspector of Police. He was armed with an AK-47 rifle, ten magazines, and twenty-nine rounds of live ammunition.
“He was taken into custody and after interrogations, his identity was revealed as Fred Monday, a 31-year-old from Wiyakara Community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State and resident at F-man Close, Eneka Link Road, Port Harcourt.”
The police boss said Fred Monday confessed to being an impostor, who bought the rifle in 2021 for N850,000 from an accomplice, Goodluck aka Boy-J.
Disu said: “He also bought ten magazines, thirty-one rounds of ammunition, and two hand grenades from the same accomplice. He disclosed to the police how he and other gang members would disguise as policemen to escort criminals to operate in different states, including Akwa-Ibom, Edo, Delta, and Rivers State.
“Fred Monday is a confessed member of the Iceland cult group and has been carrying out numerous crimes using the cover of being a policeman to terrorize his victims. He is also an armed robber who operated as a Keke (tricycle) rider during the day, scanning the area for possible victims to attack under the cover of night.
“The investigation is still on as the Police is getting closer to rounding up other members of his gang
Disu disclosed that the five cultists arrested alongside Monday, all students of Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic, have been charged and are currently in a correctional centre.