Hillary Garcha, AP No. 272969, a Police Inspector with the Safer Highway Patrol in Ado-Ekiti of the Ekiti State Police Command, was taken into custody by the command for allegedly providing armed groups with ammunition.
The capture of the Examiner of Police was located by The Bird Online in a Circumstance Report on Saturday.
The arrest of Garcha resulted in the crackdown on various gangs throughout the state, as documented by the Situation Report seen by The Eagle Online.
In addition, the arrest of a 34-year-old robbery suspect named Ponyi Nambe Boka marked the beginning of the crackdown on these gangs.
The destruction of these groups not only prompted the state’s investigating police team to storm hotels to make arrests and recover firearms, but it also led to the recovery of firearms from a well.
It was additionally accumulated that these different gangsters, captured in better places, including lodgings, all referenced Controller Garcha as their arms and ammo provider and that on June 2, 2024 at around 10pm, a posse of burglars, numbering around eight, raged Oshodi People group, Ado-Ekiti, equipped with tons of weaponry with complex firearms.
Obiyomi Oluwatunmise, who is 20 years of age, was looted and supported a shot injury on his right hand.
An AK-47 rifle with Breech Number NA2329 and one magazine containing two rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition was also recovered by police at the scene by Senior Police Officer Superintendent of Police Oke Ila, who is attached to the Ekiti State Police Command. Boka, 34, was arrested at the scene with his men.
During cross examination, Boka sang like a bird, prompting the capture of Examiner Garcha.
Further endeavors by agents of the Quick Reaction Crew joined to the Ekiti State Police Order prompted the recuperation of an AK-47 Rifle with Breech Number 56-25012126, with three magazines, stacked with nine rounds of 7.62mm live ammo from the place of the Monitor in the Irona area of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
Tinnam Timmel Moses, 31, and Ponpyal Domfas Yohanna, 38, aka Boss, were arrested at the Wonder King Hotel in the Water Works Area of Ado-Ekiti while the police team was still working on the suspect’s confessions.
The police team expanded their investigation to Ido-Ekiti on June 7, 2024, and one Napkul Amos, also known as Birdman, was taken into custody there.
On June 8, 2024, the captured suspects drove RRS agents to YGL Lodging, situated in the Oke-Ila area of Ado-Ekiti, where two privately made Beretta guns with two magazines stacked with four 9mm live ammo were recuperated inside a well inside the inn premises.
During the activity, 29-year-old Peter Nalde; Sunday, Loktul Joshua, 25, Benjamin Dashe, 27; Luka Selna, 29; and Sadul Marmap, 29, were taken into custody inside the hotel.
The SITREP states that: All captured associates admitted to be individuals with the burglary pack and prosecuted the captured examiner as their provider of arms and ammo.
“The investigation also revealed that the gang members were responsible for the armed robberies that took place on Bukola Esan in the Adebayo Area of Ado-Ekiti on January 5, 2024, and the murder of Adewumi Blessing, who was 29 years old, in the Ajebamidele Area of Ado-Ekiti on February 6, 2024.
Additionally, on May 22, 2024, these gang members murdered Isijola Temitope Opeyemi, a 40-year-old POS operator, at Ilawe Road in Ado-Ekiti.
“Outfitted burglary assault on Ms Badmus Sekinat and three others along Ilawe street on 22nd of May 2024, equipped burglary assault on Bakare David Oluwaseun and others at Ilokum Ado-Ekiti on the nineteenth of May 2024.
“Examination uncovered that the captured suspects have been grabbing bikes in Ado city since January 2024. The suspects are being held and questioned at the moment.
“Efforts are in full swing for the possible arrest of fleeing gang members named Toomuch Dashe, Ponsak, Samak, and Shinquam and the recovery of their remaining weapons and stolen valuables.”