Precious Igbonwelundu, Lagos and Osagie Otabor, Benin
THE police in Edo State have expressed their commitment to bringing the killers of Sergeant Yusuf Igoche to book.
Igoche and an unnamed school principal were killed Tuesday by gunmen along the Lagos-Benin Expressway.
It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3pm around the Benin Bypass while Igoche with force number F/462248 was escorting the principal to Lagos.
The Nation gathered that the gunmen, who came out of the bush, rained bullets on the Lexus GX470 Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) the victims were riding in.
The unnamed principal was said to have sustained multiple injuries and was rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH).
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A source said the victims were en route Lagos when they came under attack.
He said police and military operatives were deployed to comb the forest and arrest the culprits.
The Nation reports that ambushes such as this have been occurring in that part of the country’s highway since April, leaving several people dead and others injured.
The state police chief Abubakar Mohammed said his men were on the trail of the killers.
Igoche was on escort duty with a school principal.
The Edo CP said the victims were on their way to Lagos from Enugu when they ran into the ambush.
“They are coming from Enugu, the police sergeant was on escort with the principal. They ran into an ambush of armed robbers. He came out against them but unfortunately he lost his life.
“We are investigating. As I am talking to you, I just sent a combined team of police officers into the bush now. On that day my team followed the robbers and they abandoned their car and a lot of things were recovered from the car.
“I told them to smoke the forest with long range tear gas. When they saw our police they entered into the bush but they didn’t know the road and immediately they reached a dead end they abandoned the car there. Our men went there yesterday but I sent them back today again because there is the possibility that they will come out because wherever criminals operated and succeeded there is almost one hundred percent possibility that they will come back,” he said.
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