Corruption never pay>Police arrest 180 people in Owerri

The Police in Imo said ithad arrested 180 persons with“voter cards’, `INEC identitycards’ and `IndependentObserver identity cards’.The Commissioner of Police in theState, Mohammed Katsina, told anews briefing in Owerri on Thursday that two pump actionrifles, live ammunitions, 15 busesand other incriminating materialswere recovered from thepersons.He said that the persons, who came from Osun, were heading to Anambra ahead of Saturday’s governorship elections.“They were arrested while waiting to link up with their contacts in Anambra.The suspects were on a mission to breach the peace in the state and will beprosecuted.“The security agents and thecommand had worked so hard toattain peace and will not allowany politician, no matter howhighly placed, to compromise it”,he said.One of the suspects, SalawoAyodele, denied the alleged intentto rig the Anambra election.He said they were members of anindependent election monitoringbody called ‘Equity and Justice’ and that they had merelyplanned to go and observe the election.He added that they were givenN10,000 each as allowance for their feeding during their stay in Anambra.