Two brothers identified as Chigozie Simon 21, and Onyeka Simon, 22 have been arrested by the Anambra State police command police for armed robbery.

A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, Haruna Mohammed today September 23, said the suspects who are brothers from the same parents as well as undergraduates at Paul University and UNN, allegedly entered a jewelry shop at Tempsite Awka, tied the sales girl and covered her mouth with cellotape, threatened to stab her in the neck if she screamed and thereafter carted away 33 wristwatches,14 necklaces valued over three hundred thousand naira (#300,000), and a cash sum of thirty-seven thousand Naira(N37,000).

”As the suspect were escaping, the sales girl loosened the tape and raised alarm which led to the arrest of the suspects after a hot chase.” Mohammed said.