Tommy Baker and gang to attack Alotau again?

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Tommy Baker and gang to attack Alotau again?

PORT MORESBY: While police have stepped up its 60-day manhunt for Tommy Baker and his band of gangsters in Alotau, Giligili Prison is also on high alert.

People in Milne Bay’s Alotau have returned to their normal daily chores and work but they remain wary of another attack by the Baker Gang that attacked and burned down a water police barracks on April 29 that sparked the current manhunt which is estimated to cost the police K2 million.

Read on for the news update why the Corresctional Services Commissioner Stephen Pokanis is on full alert, as reported by The National:

 

 

Security alert at Alotau prison

May 28, 2021The NationalMain Stories

By MIRIAM ZARRIGA
SECURITY at Alotau’s Giligili prison, Milne Bay, has been stepped up after intelligence reports were received of a possible attack on the prison in the next 10 days.
Correctional Services Commissioner Stephen Pokanis told The National yesterday that while he would not comment on the reports, “the prison is providing security to its prisoners and the facilities”.
“We have no grudges against members of the (Tommy) Baker gang who are in hiding,” he said.
According to sources in Alotau, there are 25 members of Baker’s gang in prison, plus 20 others on remand and five convicted prisoners.
The prison is also where Baker’s mother Lorinda Kauma, his aunt Agnes Miro, 67, and uncle Maya Magumagu, 51, are detained.
On May 4, 12 men believed to be from Baker gang were arrested.
Since then, prison authorities had been on high alert and beefed up security.
Officials told The National that members of the task force conducted a raid in the prison compound and confiscated five mobile phones and sim cards which had been used to keep in touch with the gang members on the outside.
“We are on high alert and will remain like this until we are sure the threat level is down,” the source added.
Police continue to provide extra security by patrolling the surrounding areas of the prison.

 

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