Ofobike, Oyeniyi in police net over criminal attacks at ANLCA Hdqs, association president
Chidi Ogbuokiri
Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) of Nigera Police has detained the immediate past Secretary of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Chief Taiye Oyeniyi, a chieftain of the association, Chief John Ofobike and some other person’s suspected to be behind the recent hoodlums attack at the headquarters of the association and the national president of ANLCA during his recent working visit to the Port Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Port, all in Lagos.
Nationa Mail reports that the suspects were picked up at various locations in Lagos in a renewed efforts to round up suspected criminals involved in arson, robbery and assault on the National Secretariat of ANLCA, and the robbery attack on the National President, Hon. Iju Tony Nwabunike.
Nwabunike was allegedly attacked and robbed during a working visit to PTML ostensibly by hoodlums sponsored by some aggrieved chieftains of the association on February 18, 2021. The attacker’s who were said to armed with dangerous weapons, robbed the ANLCA chief of his phones, cash and other valuables.
Recall that on Tuesday October 6, 2020, the ANLCA headquarters was reportedly invaded by about 40 armed thugs who came with guns, cutlasses, knives and charms
The thugs were said to have broken into the property, chased away staff and carted away valuable documents and cash.
Giving an account of the incident, Nwabunike said in a 2020 press statement tha, “The gestapo-style invasion, which took everyone working in the secretariat unaware, resulted in robbery, looting and destruction of the association’s properties while the invaders searched for Iju Tony Nwabunike, National President and other members of the National Executive Committee (NECOM).
“Fortunately, most of the national officers they wanted to physically attack were not in the building during the raid that lasted for over 30 minutes before the very timely and lifesaving intervention of police officers from Festac Police Station.
“To say that we, the NECOM members, escaped death is stating the obvious because the attackers were out for our lives.
“On sighting the police, most of them fled while nine members of the gang were arrested with their guns, charms and other harmful objects. In their struggle, and resistance against lawful arrest, the hoodlums injured a police officer, Seargent Abadariki Funsho, who was hospitalized after the incident.”