Army, police arrest six robbery, kidnap suspects in Kogi State

MEN of the Nigerian Army and the Police have arrested six robbery and kidnap suspects that have been terrorising the state.

The Army said it arrested four robbery suspects in Felele area of Lokoja, Kogi State, while the police apprehended two suspects believed to be behind recent kidnap and robbery activities along Okene – Lokoja road.

The Public Relations Officer of the Command Army Records, Lokoja, Capt Nick Ejeh, who paraded the suspects at the Government House, said they were arrested while operating in military uniform.

The four suspects arrested by the army, Japhet Ataem, Saviour Daower, Joseph Usar and Isaac Danold, are all from Guma Local Government Area of Benue.

Ejeh said the suspects were arrested by soldiers on patrol, who engaged the suspects in a shootout during which some of them sustained gunshot injuries, adding that three of the robbers escaped.

He, however, expressed worries over increasing rate at which military uniforms were being used by perpetrators of crimes.

Items recovered from them included one AK47 rifle, two pump action assault rifles and many rounds of live ammunition.

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Also, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP William Aya, said the suspects were Hammed Saleh aka Auta of Fulani Camp, Obajana and Dulla Danladi of Fulani Camp, Gada Biyu.

“Following recent attacks on motorists along the Okene-Lokoja road by some suspected criminal elements which led to the killing of a luxury bus driver, an anti-robbery squad led by DSP Babagana Bukar, trailed and arrested some of the suspects”.

He said the investigation was still in progress as the suspects would be arraigned in court on completion of the investigation.