Frank Mba, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the state governorship election, disclosed this.
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A statement on Saturday by the Force spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi said in the course of the patrol, the IGP mapped out some salient and strategic points along the express which were immediately fortified with the deployment of operatives drawn from the Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Special Forces (SF), Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the Special Tactical Squad (STS), as well as airwing operatives in charge of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Nigeria Police Force.
Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel for the prosecution and defence argued their applications for and against the bail plea.
It would be recalled that Adegoke, Director of Finance of Xiamien Stone Limited, Abuja, was found dead on the street in Ile-Ife.
The matter has become so controversial that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has stepped into the matter. One of the interested mothers, doubting the authenticity of a DNA result presented by police investigating the matter, ran to the #EndSARS panel sitting in Abuja, crying foul. The panel is made of members of the NHRC.
Miss Okorie’s parents searched for their missing daughter for more than two weeks before it was revealed to them that she was in the custody of the Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Owerri, Imo State.
During the attack, the gunmen were said to have killed over 30 people and injured several others while setting their houses ablaze.
Before the smashing of the gang by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT), headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Mr Abba Kyari, the gang had carried out six kidnappings, including kidnapping of lecturers and professors.
When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in Imo, Abutu Yaro, confirmed the arrest but added that the operatives were not from his command.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the panel is investigating alleged human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police units.
The Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
The IRT operatives were shot dead on August 6, with the soldiers of the 93 Battalion cutting off the hands and legs cuffs of Wadume to enable him escape.
The newspaper is reporting that Special Forces from the battalion were said to have also attacked the five policemen who went on an operation to arrest a narcotics dealer in Kwesati village, Ussa Local Government Area of Taraba State last year.
The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team has arrested a fleeing dismissed policeman, Ogwu Christian, over the alleged killing Blessing, his fiancée’s mother, Veronica Obiejieogo.
The unrelenting efforts of Operatives of the Intelligence Response Unit (IRT), Special Tactical Squad, Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Unit and the Special Forces attached to Operation Puff Adder have resulted in the dismantling on May 25, 2019 of a four-man international arms-smuggling syndicate.
Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team have arrested a 50-year-old widow, Idowu Ademola, for allegedly bringing foreigners into Nigeria as domestic servants.