15-year- old, 18-years- old nabbed with double-barrel guns in Delta

Two teenagers, Godspower Peter, 18 and Voke Samuel, 15, were nabbed on Thursday on Ekakpamre-Jeremi Road in Ughelli South Local Government Area, LGA, of the state by officials of the Safer High Way Patrol. The suspects, said to be armed robbers terrorizing the state, were nabbed with a fabricated single barrel gun with four rounds of cartridges and a double barrel cut- to-size gun.The Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, in Ughelli Area Command, Mr. Usman Ndanbabo,who paraded the suspects before newsmen shortly after their arrest, said his men arrested thesuspects on a motorcycle while carrying a black polythene bag.“The polythene bag contained cut-to- size guns, with one of the bullets already used, indicatingthat they were coming from a robbery.“There were four of them who jumped into a swamp but our men pursued them, and could onlyarrest two.“The suspects made statements and the command will not relent in its efforts to make the areacrime-free,” the ACP stated.Peter, who is one of the suspects said in his statement to the police: “I am a motorcycle rider.The three boys asked me to carry them from Agbarho in Ughelli North to Otujeremi in UghelliSouth and I charged them N1, 000. They agreed.“They appealed to me to tow their motorcycle, which was bad.“On our way, we saw a police checkpoint. We were searched and two guns and bullets werefound in the bags they carried.“We fled into a nearby swamp and I was arrested.”