Austin Agulegbu, the Chief Security Officer of notorious kidnapper, late Don Waney, has been killed in a battle with the Nigerian Army.
Available information has it that the CSO of Waney, who led the killing of 23 persons on New Year day in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, was killed on February 14, 2018.
The operation, which led to the killing of Agulegbu, was carried out by troops of 222 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in conjunction with operatives of the Department of State Services in Rivers State.
Agulegbu, described as the sixth on command to Waney, was traced to his hideout at a location along New Sapele Road, Obiaruku in Ukwani Local Government Area of Delta State in the early hours of February 14, 2018.
According to the Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Aminu Iliyasu, Agulegbu was shot in an encounter with the security operatives and died before reaching the hospital.
His body has been brought to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, and handed over to the Rivers State Police Command.
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