Briefing newsmen on Sunday in Lokoja, Musa, of Kogi High Court 5, said the alleged incident took place at his residence in Lokoja on July 8, while he was away for work.
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The Kogi State Police Command on Thursday said two persons were killed and many injured in a renewed hostility between Egbira and Bassa-Kwomu tribes in the state.
The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over alleged threat to Senator Dino Melaye by the Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello, in collaboration with the Kogi State Police Command.
Kogi State Police Command has confirmed that it sent a detachment of officers to the house of Senator Dino Melaye at Aiyetoro-Gbede in Kogi State on October 11 to effect his arrest.
The Police said they have arrested 16 suspected kidnappers, whose ages range from 16 to 45 at Ankpa in Kogi, who specializes in killing innocent people and removing their vital organs.
The Police in Kogi have arrested five suspects said to be behind the kidnap of a traditional ruler, a catholic cleric and the recent spate of armed robbery on Okene -Lokoja road.
The kidnapping of Father Michael has been confirmed by the spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, William Aya.
A Police Sergeant was the victim of the shooting, the police said, and is recuperating in the hospital
No fewer than 30 heavily armed policemen have stormed Zankili Medical Centre in Abuja to rearrest Senator Dino Melaye, The Eagle Online is reporting
He said that the corpses of the slain policemen had been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, where the injured suspect is also receiving treatment.
The now removed Commissioner of the Kogi State Police Command, Ali Janga, had in a statement declared Melaye and two others wanted in connection with a gun running allegation
Melaye in separate petitions to the United Nations (UN) Resident Representative, members of the diplomatic corps including the Ambassadors of the United States, Germany, Canada and the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom and the Amnesty International, Transparency International and the Human Rights Watch, however called on the intervention of the Inspector General of Police, members of the international Community and human rights bodies to save him from what he described as “willful, intentional harassment, oppression, political victimization and threat to life.”
The command’s Public Relations Officer, William Aya, who confirmed this on Wednesday in Lokoja, said the officers were handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for prosecution
Arise, a member of the All Progressives Congress, was kidnapped on Sunday along the Okene-Lokoja Road
The Spokesman of the state police command, William Aya, told newsmen in Lokoja that Inspector Ezekiel Negedu and Sergeant Gini John were killed while on guard duty on Obajana-Oshokoshoko-Kabba Road
The Police Public Relations Officer, William Aya, who disclosed at a news conference, said late Soje, a Director in the Kogi State Civil Service, before committing suicide had partial stroke and hence the need for the autopsy.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the situation caused gridlock on the busy highway linking the northern and the southern parts of the country
A statement by the National Association of Kogi Students on Monday said that Adetutu, a HND 1 student, was kidnapped on Friday at Itakpe Junction on Lokoja-Okene Road
The state Police Commissioner, Ali Janga, while parading the suspects in Lokoja, identified the policemen as Corporal Suleiman Isiaka and Corporal Ibrahim James, while the naval personnel was Ordinary Seaman Bature Habila of the Western Naval Command.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the magistrate was kidnapped at Jimgbe, near Salem University, at about 7pm on Thursday