Police in Benue have apprehended a Junior
Secondary School II student, Atoo
Aondoana, for his alleged involvement in an
armed robbery along Makurdi-Alaide highway of the state. Arrested with the
suspect was an elderly cleaner, Peter Aghande who was said to be an accomplice.
The accomplice works with the Nigeria Air force in Makurdi, Aghande is being held for supplying the
military uniforms used for the robbery. The 18-year-old suspected robber in
military uniform, who lives with his father, admitted to the crime. He was said
that he bought the military uniform from someone. He said: “We carry hunting
guns for operation but I was not arrested with a gun. I had no weapon on me
during my arrest. I’m a secondary school student in JSS2 at Ikpayongo. "My
father is a farmer and I’m the only child of my mother who is now married to
another man in Makurdi." Aondoana said that a friend introduced him to the
robbery gang, adding that he feels bad about his ill behaviour. According to
the cleaner, the Air force personnel used to give him bad uniforms to throw
away and the boy begged him to give them to him rather than disposing of them.
He added: “But, I was shocked by the following day when I heard that the boy
went to rob with it."
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