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  • Two Policemen killed in Delta

    •Their riffles stolen

    There was palpable tension all through Friday and Saturday around Usiefurun Road area of Orhuwhorun town, Udu Council Area of Delta State, following the killing of two mobile policemen by unknown gunmen.

    The mobile policemen, who were on guard duty in the area, were murdered by suspected criminals, who staged a surprise attack on them, shot them dead and took their riffles away, leaving several residents of the area with various degrees of gunshot injuries.

    However, residents of the area started fleeing their home on Friday after reportedly being threatened by colleagues of the fallen policemen while demanding that the perpetrators be found and handed over to police authorities or they would visit their anger on whoever they lay their hands on.

    One of the residents of the area, who spoke under conditions of anonymity, said he and his family, just like most other residents of the area, deserted their home since Friday and had taken refuge in separate abodes.

    “My wife and the children are with my in-laws since yesterday (Friday), while I have since been in my cousin’s place in town (Warri). Our landlord also left with his family. He said so long as they don’t burn his house, he will return when everything has returned to normal.

    “People are running away because that evening when other policemen came, they were very angry and were threatening that they would start killing people if the community failed to produce the killers and the rifles. They also went to the palace of the traditional ruler and asked him to produce the rifles,” the community source said.

    Meanwhile, when reached, the spokesman of the Delta State Police Command, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, said the command was already on the trail of the perpetrators, adding that there would be no rest until the killers are brought to justice.

    “There’s no way any police personnel will threaten the people because without the people, there can’t be a police force; we only exist because there’s a people. I must plead, though, that people with credible information about how these criminals can be arrested should volunteer such information. You and I know that those who collected those rifles did not take them for nothing, they definitely want to use them to further do harm to innocent people,” he said.

  • Two policemen killed as expatriate is kidnapped

    Two policemen, an inspector and sergeant were reportedly killed yesterday by hoodlums on Monday evening on Obajana-Oshokoshoko road, Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State.

    The assailants also kidnapped an expatriate.

    It was gathered that the policemen were guarding the expatriate worker at a road construction site.

    They were said to have laid ambush for the expatriate, identified as Jose Mechada, a Portuguese.

    Sources said the police sergeant, Gini John, was reportedly shot dead on the spot, while Inspector Ezekiel Negedu died at the hospital.

    Kogi State Police Command spokesman Williams Ayah said the hoodlums were 15.

    He said the commissioner of Police has directed deputy commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of Operations to mobilise operatives from the Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS), Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Counter Terrorism Unit, for a rescue operation.

    Ayah, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the commissioner visited the scene of the incident and met with management of the company, promising the are expatriate will be rescued.

  • Four policemen killed in Osun varsity town robbery

    Armed robbers struck in Iwo, Osun State yesterday, killing four police men in a raid of banks near Bowen University, one of the foremost private universities in the country, owned by the Baptist Convention.

    The robbers, who reportedly operated for about one hour, came in four vehicles, laid a siege to the financial institutions and carted away unspecified amount of cash at the bank branches.

    It was learnt that they killed the policemen, who were protecting the banks in the process.

    However, one of the bandits was killed by the police team.

    Also, two customers and a bank worker were among the injured.

    It was gathered that the robbery tok place shortly before 4.pm when the banks were rounding off the day’s operation.

    The bandits reportedly used explosives to blow open the banks’ security doors to gain access into the banking halls.

    It was also learnt that the bandits had earlier stopped at Iwo Divisional Police Station and destroyed the Armoured Personnel Carrier 9APC) in the premises.

    It was learnt that Commissioner of Police Adeoye Olafimihan led a team of policemen to the scene of the robbery but police spokesperson Folasade Odoro, could not be reached  to speak on  the robbery.

     

  • Two policemen killed in Sokoto

    Two policemen killed in Sokoto

    THE Commissioner of Police in Sokoto State, Mohammed Abdulkadir, has confirmed the death of two mobile policemen.
    Abdulkadir told reporters the policemen were killed by suspected robbers at the NNPC Mega Station on Gusua road, yesterday.
    “The deceased were on duty when the hoodlums struck at the filling station about 2am yesterday.
    “We will disclose the identities of the deceased after informing their families.
    “Their remains have been deposited at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital mortuary,” he added.
    Abdulkadir also confirmed the killing of an unidentified middle-aged man by unknown assailants.
    According to him, the headless body was put in a sack and dumped in a refuse dump on Maituta Road.
    “The remains have also been deposited at the same morgue. No arrests were made but we are on the trail of the fleeing hoodlums,” Abdulkadir added.