The Police Command in Kogi has arrested six suspects in connection with the killing of one Salome Abu, at Ochadamu, Ofu Local Government Area of the state, on November 18.
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The state Police Command’s Spokesman, DSP Willam Aya, who confirmed the development in Lokoja on Tuesday, said that a former councillor in the local government, Salome Abu and Awalu Zekeri died in the crisis.
Aroke allegedly pulled the heist right from prison using a network of accomplices, some of them targets of fraud and money laundering investigation.
In a statement signed by SP Haruna Mohammed, the Command’s Public Relations Officer on Saturday, the police said the arrest followed a fierce gun battle with the criminals.
NAN also reports that security operatives from the Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Services, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nigeria Army and Fire Service were seen at the INEC office in Yenagoa.
The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Operations, Abdulmajid Ali, made this known to newsmen in Lokoja on Thursday.
Adamu said this on Wednesday in Abuja at an event to mark the decoration of newly promoted police officers to the rank of AIG.
Uches Alozie, the state Commissioner of Police, said this during a workshop organised by Academic Associates Peace Works on Wednesday in Yenagoa.
The commotion that led to the firing of the teargas by the policemen occurred when the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Natasha Akpoti, arrived at the venue of the meeting, the second in the series.
The Police Command in Ekiti on Sunday confirmed that two students of Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti, drowned in Ureje River on Friday.
Aya, in a statement, listed the casualties to include Justice Keke, a 300 level student of Physics Department who was killed in the campus after a theatre production on November 1.
In a statement issued on Monday in Enugu, the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said that the incident happened on Sunday morning in Onuogba Nike community of Enugu East Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking in Belfast, Essex Police Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Stoten urged the brothers to “hand yourselves in to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.”
The Chairman of the association, Muhammad Maigana, described the detention of one of its members as “unconstitutional, unlawful and illegal”.
The command Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo, made the disclosure in a press statement issued on Saturday, in Kaduna.
Alhaji Musliu Smith, the Chairman of PSC, made the call in Abuja during the launch of the PSC Strategic Plan 2019-2023.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Enugu.
Reacting to the incidents and arrests, President Muhammadu Buhari, according to a statement on Saturday by his spokesman, Garva Shehu, noted that such arrests is in line with his commitment to human rights and dignity of the citizens regardless of their age, religion and ethnicity.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, said in a statement in Abuja that a joint operation comprising other security agencies had been set up to ensure that all the kidnapped victims are set free.
Zaki Ahmed, the Commissioner of Police in the state, announced this in a statement issued by SP Odiko Macdon, the Public Relations Officer for the command, on Wednesday.