Benue police kill three criminals parades 17 suspects

BENUE state commissioner of police, Omololu Bishi has said that his men killed three criminals within the state.

Bishi who paraded seventeen suspected criminals yesterday said that the suspects were apprehended for violent crimes ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, rape and cultism.

Bishi said that among the suspects were members of a deadly robbery gang who operated along Otukpo-Enugu axis.

The gang members, according to the police boss, had on January 18, this year, kidnapped a woman in Otukpo asking for ransom.

He said that on sighting the police, the suspects opened fire on our men, a development which made the police to respond fire for fire, gunning down two of the suspects but seven others were arrested.

Bishi said that various Items were recovered from the suspects, which he named to include; three rifles of different makes with 30 rounds of ammunition, five military camouflages, police uniform that was collected from a policeman at gunpoint during a robbery operation sometimes last year.

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Also recovered were 28 handsets, the sum of N4000, ladies handbags, rings, and jewellery watches.

Bishi further said that his men also smashed another gang of three armed robbers who were operating in Zaki-Biam in Ukum local government area of the state, killing the gang leader in a gun duel while the two other suspects including a 17-year-old secondary school student were arrested.

He said the gang had robbed some persons in the area at gunpoint and raped a 50-year-old woman in the process after dispossess get her of her belongings.

Speaking on the.crisis that rocked Gboko on Monday the police commissioner disclosed that four suspects have so far been arrested and called on political leaders in the state to warn their youths against acts that could disturb the peace of the state.

The CP advised those who are in possession of firearms in the state to immediately surrender them at the nearest police stations so that they can be pardoned.

He also warned that anyone who fails to surrender such weapons, if caught, would be made to face the wrath of the law.