Police Kill Robber, Parade Other Suspects in Kogi

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Kogi State Police command, at the weekend, killed an unidentified armed robber during a robbery operation along the Lokoja-Abuja highway.

The new state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Saidu Madawaki, who disclosed this while parading other armed robbery gangs at the command headquarters in Lokoja, said the command was determined to make the state uninhabitable for criminals.

Madawaki said the robbery occurred at about 3.30 am when a group of armed robbers stopped a Mercedes 911 truck with registration number: GME 117AX, driven by one Abubarkar Adamu at Gaba village on the Lokoja-Abuja highway.

He said while attempting to rob the occupants of the truck, a patrol team received a distress call and promptly responded to it, adding that on arrival at the scene, the robbers engaged the police team in a gun battle.

He added that this led to the death of one of robbers, while a police inspector was injured in the process. He said other members of the robbery gang fled the scene on noticing the superior fire power of the patrol team.

Madawaki said efforts are being intensified to arrest the fleeing members of the gang.

He told journalists that the command has recovered a Toyota Avalon car with registration number: FS 79 ABJ and cash totalling N80, 000 suspected to be stolen from Ajaka in Igala/ Mela Odolu Local Government Area of the state.

The other suspects paraded are Ibrahim Abdullahi, Thomas Omaye, Onalo Okiye and Ilode Harrman.

The police commissioner said the suspects will be charged to court soon.

 

 

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3 thoughts on “Police Kill Robber, Parade Other Suspects in Kogi

  1. Achogba dauda

    Your comment…kogi Governor Bello u don’t want NLc to call strick pay workers salary if u don’t want to creat problem in kogi state

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