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No fewer than four armed robbery suspects have been arrested and ammunition recovered from them in parts of Delta State.

This comes barely three days after the assumption of office by CP Wale Abass as the new Commissioner of Police for Delta State.

CP Abass had, on assumption of office during the week, had addressed officers and men of the command, admonishing them to carry out their duties diligently.

He had also warned that only result-oriented officers would retain their offices under his watch.

Few hours after reading out the riot act and mapping out his operational strategies, the DPO of ‘A’ Division, Warri, CSP T.Y Mahmud, led the divisional anti-crime patrol team out on visibility and confidence building patrol to curtail the activities of kidnappers and armed robbers in Warri and environs.

The team, during the patrol, intercepted a tricycle along Eagle roundabout by Ogunu Bridge, conveying three occupants and subjected them to a search.

Graciously, 30 rounds of 7.62 AK47 live ammunition were recovered from two of the passengers identified as Eddy Aboyowa, 37, and Akpani Isaiah, 35, both of Eyiejuku Street, off Deco Road, Warri.

Two other suspects, one Chinedu Enenmo, 37, of Akere Ogidi, Ogbaru LGA Anambra State and Donatus Ndukan, 34, of Urom community in Awka-North LGA of Anambra State, were arrested by a Decoy Squad, led by ASP Julius Robinson in connection with alleged supply of ammunition to kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists.