The Command Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko in a statement said the two suspects were apprehended at the Olu Obasanjo area of Port Harcourt while riding a motorcycle.
SP Iringe-Koko said both suspects have also confessed to multiple crimes, stating that they specialize in loitering outside the premises of banks and gauging the amount of money customers withdraw to steal from them.
According to the police, the two robbery suspects were recently involved in a robbery case involving a pick-up vehicle conveying indomie supplies where they forcefully took one hundred thousand naira from the driver.
The statement said investigations confirmed that the two suspects had, within this year, stolen three motorcycles, one of which has been recovered and is now at the Borikiri Police Station in Port Harcourt, two were stolen at Choba Road and Eliozu in Obio/Akpor local government area.
It said further investigations shows that the suspects both relocated to Port Harcourt last year following the crisis of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Imo State and other parts of the South East.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, has directed that the two suspects be charged immediately in an appropriate court and enjoined Rivers residents to be vigilant while carrying out transactions in banks.
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