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  • Police parade 52 for alleged ballot box snatching

    The Kogi State Police Command yesterday paraded 52 suspected political thugs and others.

    Commissioner Mr. Akeem Busari, while parading the suspects with arms, ammunition and other weapons recovered from them, said they were responsible for the electoral crimes committed during the general election.

    He said in line with the directive of the Inspector- General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, to ensure violence free elections and clamp down on thugs, the command adopted a comprehensive crime prevention and directed strategies and operational measures, including the beginning of raids of identified criminals’ hideouts, black spots and flashpoints across the state.

    Busari said operatives, working on actionable intelligence and in compliance with IG’s directives to clamp down on thugs determined to disrupt the elections, arrested the gangs responsible for electoral violence, as well as kidnapping of residents.

    He said the suspects were nabbed in their hideouts and locations across the state, adding that some of them confessed to their criminal roles.

    “They admitted to have participated in thuggery during the just concluded elections, kidnapping, robberies and attacks on travellers on highways across the state.

    “These achievements were due to the proactive strategies rooted in intelligence led policing, and robust interaction with the various strata of our communities, particularly in the area of information gathering; since it has become obvious that security is an all stakeholders’ affairs.”

    The command recovered 22 guns, including AK 47 rifles, locally made pistols, single barrel guns, locally made double barrel guns, Dane guns, pump action guns, locally made revolvers, cut to size double barrel pistols and a number of AK 47 live ammunition.

    Also recovered were cutlasses, expended cartridges, a green Vento saloon car and phones.

  • Kogi: Five suspected kidnappers arrested

    The Kogi State Police Command Monday said it has arrested five notorious kidnappers allegedly responsible for abducting and robbing people along the Okene -Lokoja road.

    Those paraded by the command included those that allegedly abducted Rev. Leo Micheal and Usman Adoga, the chief of Jakura community, Lokoja LGA, recently.

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    Parading the suspected kidnappers before newsmen, the state police commissioner, Ali Janga said the five suspects were arrested based on intelligent report.

    According to him, one of the suspects, Ibrahim Musa that was part of the gang which abducted Father Micheal at Irepeni village, and the chief of Jakura, gave useful information to the police, adding that the command is on the trail of other suspects connected with the incident.

    He said that N240, 000 was recovered from them.

    He appealed to members of the public to always avail the command with information of happenings around them in order to flush out criminals from the state.

    He disclosed that N1.1m was paid as ransom to the gang members, before the release of the chief of Jakura, adding that the command will arraign the suspects in court immediately they complete their investigation.

    One of the suspects, Musa confessed to partaking in the kidnap operation, saying that adding that another member of the gang, Shagari, shot and killed the chief’s son, in one of their operations.

    Musa who claimed that he’s from Niger State, said he has been into kidnapping and robbery for years, adding that he relocated to Kogi State with others to “continue making  money” from banditry.

    The chief of Jakura, Usman Adoga, said he ran into the gang, and unfortunately, lost his son in the process, adding that he was dragged to unknown places in the bush, where he spent five days before regaining his freedom.

     

  • Kogi: Police parade 40 suspected criminals

    Kogi: Police parade 40 suspected criminals

    The Kogi State Police Command on Tuesday paraded 40 suspects for various alleged offences including kidnapping, robbery, illegal possession of fire arms, vandalism and unlawful possession of substance.

    Four of the suspects were allegedly behind the kidnap of two businessmen and other recent robbery incidents in the state.

    The Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of Operation, Edward Ebuka, while parading the suspects at the Police Command Headquarters in Lokoja, said they were arrested at their different locations around the state.

    He said six of them, Ugbodaga Wada, Abdul Mudi, Adamu Faruna, Nuhu Usman, Abaji Awor and Abdulahi Sule were arrested for the kidnap of Alhaji Musa Oseni and Alhaji Buba in April at Ayingba.

    According to him, 17 others are being held for their alleged involvement in various robbery incidents on the highways and other parts of the state.

    He said that arms including two AK-47 rifles, a locally-made pistol and a Bareta Pistol with number 21244 and 27 rounds of live ammunition, were recovered from the suspects.

    Other recovered items are, a white Nissan Sunny marked: YAB 980 AL and an ash-coloured Toyota Carina, car (AA 479 FFA).

  • Kogi: Police arrest fleeing suspects, free kidnap victim 

    Kogi: Police arrest fleeing suspects, free kidnap victim 

    The Kogi State Police Command has said that it will not relent in its efforts to rid the state of crime and criminality.

    This is coming on the heels of the rescue of a kidnap victim from the booth of a car, and the subsequent arrests of some of the suspected kidnappers, in Kabba Local Government.

    The Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. William Ayah, in a release Friday in Lokoja, said that the proactive measures put in place by the command was already yielding positive result.

    It read: “Through a proactive crime preventing strategies adopted in ensuring that citizens are safe and criminality curtailed, the command through intelligence-led response rescued a kidnapped victim.

    “On the 19th of July, 2017 at about 2230hrs, acting on a distress call that hoodlums abducted one Sunday Amupitan ‘M’ of Surulere Quarters, Kabba LGA of Kogi State, operatives from Kabba Division led by the DPO, promptly moved to the scene while the suspects were racing away from the scene in a Honda Accord vehicle with Reg. No. APP 444 DA.

    “The police patrol team pursued the hoodlums, and in a bid to escape arrest while running, hit three motorcyclists, then abandoned the vehicle and fled.

    “The Area Commander Kabba led a team in combing the scene for clue of identity of suspects at large. GSM handset suspected to belong to one of the kidnappers was recovered. Quick analysis of the phone led to the arrest of one of the suspects named: Ayodele ‘M’ aged 30yrs of Garupa Street, Kabba. On interrogation, suspect confessed to being a member of the kidnappers. He also listed other members of the syndicate of five.

    “Further investigation led to the arrest of another suspect named Tunde Emmanuel ‘M’ alias Eleje of Odo-Ofin Kabba. The victim was rescued from the booth of the vehicle where he was bound and dumped”.

    “Efforts is ongoing to track and arrest the fleeing suspects. Suspects will be arraigned in court on completion of investigation”, it added.

     

  • Kogi: Police arrests nine suspected kidnappers

    Kogi: Police arrests nine suspected kidnappers

    The Kogi State Police Command said on Monday that it had arrested nine suspected kidnappers and rescued a victim, Pastor Oliver Clement.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP William Aya who disclosed this in a statement in Lokoja said that the suspects were rounded up in their various hideouts in Okene, Ankpa, Lokoja and other parts of the state.

    He said that the cleric was kidnaped on July 9 and rescued from his abductors on July 13, at their Inye hideouts in Ankpa Local Government, adding that he has since been reunited with his family.

    According to him, one of the suspects, Uche Michael was arrested with bullet wounds at the General Hospital, Okpo, in Olamaboro Local Government Area of the state.

    The police spokesman described Michael as a notorious armed robber/kidnapper who recently escaped arrest in Ondo State, saying that the suspect had gone to the hospital for treatment when luck ran out on him.

    He further stated that an old time criminal who had been on the police wanted list for years, Habeeb Abdulkareem was among those arrested. The suspect he said was arrested in Okene.

    Other suspects arrested for kidnapping and armed robbery include Muazu Salem, Mutari Suleiman, Mohammed Abubakar, Ibrahim Ali, Abdulahi Idris, Amodu Isah and Gade Garba.

    He said that others escaped arrest but that intelligence officers had been detailed to track and arrest them.

    Aya said that all the suspects were arrested between May 25 and July 13, saying that nine assorted rifles, including AK47, pump action, double barrel guns and pistols were recovered from them.

    Also recovered from them are live cartridges, cutlasses, knives, hammers and charms.

    Aya said that some of the suspects had made confessional statement and were cooperating with the police.

    All the suspects, he said, will be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.

  • Kogi police command parade 33 suspects

    Kogi police command parade 33 suspects

    The Kogi State Police Command Wednesday in Lokoja paraded 33 suspects over their alleged involvement in criminal activities, including armed robbery, kidnapping and illegal possession of fire arms.

    The suspects according to the command were arrested at different locations in the state.

    Parading the suspects, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of Operations, Edward Egbuka, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCO) said that one of the suspects, Salami Yakubu from Ankpa, residing at Oyangede in Ohimini Local Government, Benue State, made to dispose of a Beretta pistol before he was arrested.

    Others paraded included suspected kidnappers and armed robbers, namely: Ugbogada Wada, Abdul Mudi AKA Adamu Faruna, Nuhu Usman a.k.a Lambisa and others were intercepted by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Egume, Anyingba, Itobe and Adogo.

    Four of the suspects according to the police were arrested at Aiyetoro Kiri in Kabba/Bunu Local Government with two AK 47 and 27 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition.

    Other items recovered from the suspects included locally made revolver pistols, vandalized power armoured cables, a white coloured Nissan Sunny vehicle marked: YAB 980AL ABJ, an ash coloured Toyota Carina, and weed suspected to be Indian hemp.

    The command also arrested a suspect who escaped from the Koton Karfe prison, during a jail break about two years back.