Two university students are detained in Benue on suspicion of robbery.

In Makurdi, the capital of Benue State, the Benue State Police Command has detained two theft suspects.

The accused, Sapele Great and Hakem Adi, who had been reportedly students at Joseph Sawuan Tarka University in Makurdi (previously referred to as the Federal University of Agriculture), had been apprehended by means of a squad of detectives on Wednesday, June 15, 2022.

In a commentary launched by means of Catherine Anene, the State Command Public Relations Officer, it was once claimed that the suspects had allegedly entered into a house in New GRA, Makurdi, in the early days of April and fled with debit playing cards, telephones, and different pieces.

Anene stated;

“The robbers transferred N300,000 from the sufferer’s accounts the usage of the stolen ATM playing cards.

“The Commissioner of Police deployed a staff of detectives to path and arrest the suspects however the suspects, who knew that they had been being trailed, took to their heels till June 15, 2022, when two of the suspects; Sapele Great and Hakem Adi of other addresses in Makurdi had been arrested.

According to a spokesperson for the command, pieces taken from the suspects incorporated a in the neighborhood made pistol with 9 rounds of reside 6mm ammunition, 8 telephones suspected of having been stolen, an digital stun gun, 18 SIM playing cards from more than a few networks, a United Bank for Africa checkbook allegedly belonging to Agasha Philemon Assume, and different digital units suspected of getting used in web fraud.