The Edo State Police Command on Friday paraded 76 suspects, including a suspected fake doctor, for various heinous offences committed in different locations across the state.
The suspects were paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Foluso Adebanjo, at the state headquarters in Benin.
The fake doctor, Moses Hajire Jumbo, was arrested for alleged murder of a pregnant woman whom he illegally operated upon for child delivery on September 24.
Jumbo, was said to have admitted the late woman into one St. Moses Nursing Maternity Home, operated on her unlawfully at Uwelu Quartres in the state capital, where she gave up after delivery.
According the command, investigations showed that the suspect was never a medical doctor, a nurse or a medical staff of any hospital.
The suspect was said to have confessed to the crime and would be charged to court.
Others paraded by the command include four attempted murder suspects, 16 armed robbery suspects, five suspected kidnappers, 15 suspected cultists and illegal possessors of firearms, 10 suspected rapists and seven persons arrested for alleged defilement.
One Believe Ofuegbu, 30, was arrested for alleged sodomy, four persons were arrested for alleged violent threat to life, one was nabbed for manufacturing adulterated spirits.
The commanded also arrested an alleged fraudster and three other persons for alleged burglary.
The police commissioner, who assured the public that the agency would clamp down on criminals in the state, disclosed that the command also recovered 17 assorted guns, 30 live cartridges, two cutlasses, 21 vehicles, one motorcycle and the sum of N19,700.
Police parade 76 suspected criminals in Edo
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