By Capital Watch Media
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a thirteen-year-old boy identified as Samuel Sunday for using his father’s gun to threaten his classmates at St. Paul Primary School, Ikot Ibiok, in Eket Local Government Area of the state.
The police also arrested the father, who owns the gun and kept it in his wardrobe before the son took it to school.
Parading the suspects at the police headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, Uyo, on Thursday, the state Public Relations Officer, DSP Timfon John, said the thirteen-year-old suspect took the gun from his father’s wardrobe on November 24, 2024, before he was arrested on January 30, 2025.
The Police Public Relations Officer said the police, acting on intelligence, arrested the suspect and his father, while the gun was recovered for further investigations.
“On 30/01/2025 at about 0800 hrs, based on credible information at the Command’s disposal, that on 28/01/2025, one Samuel Sunday ‘m’ of Ikot Ibiok village in Eket LGA, a 13-year-old pupil of St. Paul Primary School, Ikot Ibiok, in Eket LGA, was going armed in the school and threatening to fire at his fellow pupils.
“The operatives of the Command immediately swung into action and arrested the suspect and recovered a locally made pistol.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that he has been with the said gun since November 2024, that he got the gun from a wardrobe in his father’s bedroom. The father was later arrested. Investigation is still ongoing.”
The police also paraded one Roseline Maurice ‘f’ and one Eno Udoka ‘f’ for conspiring and stealing a child at Obong Itam village in Itu LGA sometime in June 2024 and selling the victim for the sum of ₦200,000.00 (two hundred thousand naira) to their regular receiver in Cross River State.
The suspects were said to have used the money to purchase a refrigerator, television, fan, etc. She said all the items have been recovered from them.
John also paraded child trafficking syndicates that lure young girls into having affairs with men who eventually get them pregnant, and the babies are sold.
“In another development, on 01/02/2025 at about 0800 hrs, based on a complaint from two young girls, 18 years of age, that one woman attempted to traffic them to Cross River State for them to have affairs with men and get pregnant in order to sell the babies and share the money. Operatives of the command swung into action and arrested one Gift Essien Tommy ‘f’ and one Peace Ekanem ‘f’.”
