Rivers Vigilante Group Arrests 14-Year-Old Boy Leading Three-Man Robbery Gang With Pistol

By Babatunde Solanke

A 14 year –old boy (name withheld) with pistol has been arrested the Rivers State vigilante while robbing residents of Ikwerre Road in the Mile 1 axis of Diobu in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

 The local vigilante, known as Diobu Security Services revealed that the teenager allegedly led a three-man criminal during the operation on Sunday night.

The Commander of the Diobu Security Service, Prince Amatari, made this disclosurewhile speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

Amatari explained that the boy’s arrest followed a distress call put across by residents of the area to the vigilante that some miscreants were dispossessing them of cash and other valuables along Ikwerre Street by Emenike when his men swooped on them.

The outtit commander, who disclosed that on sighting them, two of the criminals fled, but luck ran out for the 14-year-old who was nabbed, 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.

“Then I asked him at age 14 you are not talking about hunger, are you not supposed to be in school?

“He now said he doesn’t have money to train himself in school and that is why he joined an armed robbery gang,” Amatari added

The vigilante cmmander added that the suspect was later handed over to the Mile 1 Police Station in Port Harcourt, the state Capital.

As at the time of filing this report, the state police command is yet to confirm the development.