Two suspects have been arrested in Kogi State, for using police uniform to rob on the highway. Items recovered from them two AK 47 assault riffles with police inscriptions: NPF 21193, and NPF O6988. The Kogi State acting Commissioner of Police, MR Austin Evbaklavbakun, a deputy commissioner of police, told THISDAY that the suspects Ibrahim Aliyu and Yakubu Alfa, were the kingpins in the syndicate of robbers terrorising the public along the Okene- Auchi road. He stated that the duo were in the habit of dressing in fake police uniforms and mounting robbery checkpoints on the highway. He added that the police uniforms more often than not do lure unsuspecting members of the public to stop for them. He state that also recovered from the suspects were huge quantity of live ammunitions, police uniforms including mopol berets, cutlasses, criminal charms and some quantities of weed suspected to be Indian hemps. The police boss said luck ran out on the suspects when they attacked some people who were returning from mosque in the early hours of 14 september 2013 and opened fire on the victims. The sound of the gun fire attracted a patrol team, who were surprised to see some policemen they could not recognise operating in their beat. He said the patrol team encountered the suspects demanding for proper identification and when they could not properly identify themselves, they were disarmed and arrested.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 07:59:46 +0000
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