The clock is now ticking for 24-year-old Ibilabei
Agbani Lawson, after he was caught by the dragnet laid for him by the police in
Rivers State.
At the headquarters of the police command, where he is being held, naked fear has gripped Lawson, an alleged cultist and sea pirate who carried out a murderous campaign against personnel of the security agencies.
Like a
man with a dark, stony heart that is incapable of showing mercy, Lawson was
alleged not to have passed up any opportunity to kill policemen, soldiers,
operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and other security
personnel he encountered in the course of his illegal activities in the creeks.
In one instance,
he burnt a man alive for giving operatives of the Federal Special Armed Robbery
Squad information about him. He doused the man with petrol and set him ablaze.
According
to the police in Rivers State, Lawson is said to have murdered over 20 personnel
of the Nigeria Marine Police as well as other security operatives. The gang
operated in Buguma, Bukuma, Iyalama, Tuma, Agbakiri and Osaku areas of River
State.
At the
height of his criminal exploits, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ahmed Zaki
told Sunday Sun that Lawson was declared wanted and the
Special Armed Robbery Squad was ordered to make his arrest a top priority. The
manhunt for him paid off when men of the Marine Police engaged in pin-down
patrol around Agip/Elechi waterways in Port Harcourt arrested him after a
fierce exchange of gunfire.
When the
speed boat of the gang was searched, the police recovered a Beretta pistol,
AK47 rifles with 56 rounds of ammunition and 15 wraps of weed suspected to be
Indian hemp.
Following
his arrest, Zaki said Lawson was transferred to the custody of the commander of
the River State Police Command Eagle Crack Team, led by Supol Nathaniel Okpara.
ASP Ejike Emmanuel and other operatives of the Team moved and arrested two
other suspected members of the gang, namely Samuel Monima 22, and Noble Ngiagia.
- Sun News
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