Onogwu Muhammed, the Chief Press Secretary to the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday.
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Onogwu Muhammed, Chief Press Secretary to the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, DSP William Aya, who confirmed this on Sunday in Lokoja, said Akpa was kidnapped along Ochadamu Road in Ofu Local Government Area.
The appeal was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lokoja and signed by Dr Oyiguh Omakoji and Dr Famotele Tolorunju, the state Chairman and Secretary of the Association, respectively.
The Commissioner of Police in Kogi State, Ede Ayuba, said the suspects, including a 50-year-old woman, participated in the looting of the state Agricultural Development Project and essential drugs warehouse belonging to the state government.
An eyewitness account said the woman was murdered at her house in the presence of her husband and children on Thursday night when the assailants allegedly attacked her with a cutlass
Spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, DSP William Aya, told newsmen on Monday in Lokoja that the suspect was arrested at a hideout in the early hours of Monday.
The arrest of the suspects was confirmed in a statement issued in Lokoja on Thursday by the state police command.
Ayuba, while parading the suspects at the headquarters in Lokoja, said the command had adopted comprehensive crime prevention and control strategies in recent times to combat criminality in the state.
The armed robbers were said to have invaded the Police Station at about 1pm and opened fire on all officers and men on duty
The Kogi State Police Command has arrested three persons suspected to be kidnappers in Okene area of the state.
The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the killing of Attah Isah, Chairman of Egume Community Vigilance Group in Dekina Local Government Area, by armed men on Sunday evening.
The Kogi State Police Command says it has launched a manhunt for some youths that allegedly killed two Fulani herdsmen in Egume, Dekina Local Government Area of the state.
The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of nine members of the Kogi State Vigilante Service for allegedly torturing a man to death in Ofabo Egabenebe community in Ofu Local Government area of the state.
The officials were said to be travelling to Makurdi, Benue State for promotion examination when their vehicles were stopped by the kidnappers
The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of four officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps by unknown gunmen.
The Nigeria Police in Kogi State said no GUO, Ezenwata and Young Shall Grow luxury bus was hijacked by bandits on the Lokoja-Okene Road.
In a statement, the Kogi State Police Command said the victims – Mohammed Salisu Cache, Abdulraq Mohammed and Abdulraq Anataku – were rescued unhurt in the early hours of Saturday.
The police in Lokoja on Sunday confirmed three persons dead during the governorship election held in Kogi on Saturday.
The killings were said to have been ignited when a student of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, suspected to be a kingpin of a cult group, was killed