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An uneasy
calm pervades the university town of Nsukka over the increasing atrocious acts
by masquerades who rob, torture and extort money from unsuspecting victims, as
another two are presently helping the police in their investigations of torture
and extortion.
According to Vanguard the two masquerades in police custody were
arrested along Nru community, after engaging the police team in physical
combat.
Some
onlookers were said to have joined the fray by stoning the police men and
raining abuses on them. In spite of this, the two erring masquerade were
eventually overpowered and arrested. Other masked individuals were said to have
fled into nearby communities and bushes.
Following
complaints from different quarters of masquerades frequent brutality, extortion
and blockage of roads along Ugwu-Nkwo, Orba road, Nru junction, in the process
of which they maim people and compel victims to drop money or face the wrath of
masquerades, a combined team of men of the Area Command and the Nsukka Urban
Police Division swung into action and managed to arrest the two.
Reports
revealed that the two masquerades brutally attacked a staff of Radio Nigeria,
Dream FM Station, Nsukka and an academic doctor of the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka who lodged different complaints at both the Area Command and Nsukka
Urban Police Division, prompting the police in their numbers to move into the
communities.
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