The Lagos State Police Command has rearrested a suspected member of the Jonathan Nweke, who escaped from custody during the unrest that followed the #EndSARS demonstrations in the Alaba Rago area of the state.
The State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, disclosed this while parading no fewer than 1,320 suspects at the Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja on Wednesday.
Odumosu said Nweke, who is a suspected member of Eastern Security Network, the paramilitary organization of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB/ESN, was arrested with a locally-made pistol and nine rounds of 9mm live ammunition.
The CP said, “The divisional headquarters, Ojo, Lagos, while on stop and search duty rearrested the suspect at Volks off Badagry Expressway, with a locally-made pistol and nine rounds of 9mm live ammunition.
“The suspect, who is also suspected to be a member of the proscribed IPOB/ESN confessed to have recently come back from Awka in Anambra State where he escaped to after a jailbreak, and where he acquired the recovered arms and ammunition. He is assisting operatives in the arrest of their gang members now at large.”