MASSOB seizes suspected car snatchers in Onitsha

Members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday handed over two suspected car snatchers to the police in Onitsha, Anambra State. 

MASSOB Director of Information Uchenna Madu and the Administrator for Onitsha Region 3, Osundu Okwaraeke, said two members of the three-man gang were seized while trying to sell a Nissan Sunny car marked AH887PR, which was snatched in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

They said the third suspect, simply identified as Chi Boy, escaped.

One of the suspects, Chinedu Oya, said: “We trailed the owner of the car to a drinking joint in Port Harcourt and our leader (now at large) opened the car with a master key. We brought the car to a buyer in Onitsha, but he refused to buy it because we could not produce the original particulars. 

“We were stranded and needed money to fuel the car. We approached a man we saw by the road side and asked if he could help sell the car at any price. “It was while waiting for him to link us with a buyer that we were surrounded by MASSOB members. We did not know the man was a MASSOB member.”  

But Madu said: “They were stranded and asked one of our security men to help them sell their phone, but he declined. They tried to force him into their car, but his shout attracted other MASSOB members, who apprehended them.”

The suspects were handed over to policemen attached to Awada Police Station. 

The Nation