A three-man gang of Diobu Security Services group have arrested a 14-year-old boy with a pistol while robbing residents of Ikwerre Road in the Mile 1 axis of Diobu in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
Africa Update reports that the local vigilante group apprehended the teenager (name withheld) during an operation on Sunday.
The group’s Commander, Prince Amatari, disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
Amatari said the boy’s arrest followed a distress call received by his men that some miscreants were dispossessing people of cash and other valuables along Ikwerre Road by Emenike.
He added that when his men arrived at the scene, two of the criminals fled, but luck ran out of the 14-year-old who was arrested.
He said, “If a boy of 14 years can have the mind to rob residents with a pistol, it tells you how the society is now.
“The victims said their money, clothes and mobile phones were collected by the criminals. I spoke with the suspect and he said it was hunger that pushed him into crime.”
Amatari stated that the suspect was later handed over to the Mile 1 Police Station in Port Harcourt.
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