Police Kill Five, Nab Four Suspected Otukpo Bank Robbers Who Slaughtered DPO, Five Others
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has said that Police operatives have finally arrested four robbery kingpins who raided three new-generation banks in Otukpo, Benue State.
The IGP disclosed this during his last press briefing for the year and meeting with senior field commanders at the police headquarters in Abuja.
According to him, “the Force recorded many breakthroughs in the investigation of some major criminal occurrences within the period.
“You will recall the deadly Otukpo bank robbery of 20th October 2023, during which the Divisional Police Officer, Otukpo Division, many other innocent Nigerians lost their lives and huge sums of money carted away from three commercial banks.
“The unrelenting efforts of our men working with technically generated intelligence paid off as during an encounter with the daredevil robbers, five of them were neutralized while four were arrested and are currently in custody assisting police investigators.
“A total of nine AK47 rifles and five thousand and thirteen (5,013) rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition were recovered from them.”
The Guardian-Nigeria
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on Dec 19 2023. Filed under National.
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