Luck ran out of a gang of armed robbers at Upper Sokponba area of Benin City, Edo State capital, as the vigilante group and JTF in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area on Sunday foiled a robbery operation in Oka 4, around First Page Hotel, Upper Sakponba
Acting on a tip-off on Sunday, the hoodlums whose names were not given as at the time of filing this report were swooped on by the Council’s vigilante force accompanied by a Joint Task Force of Army and Air Force permanently stationed at the council secretariat in Idogbo, Benin City the Edo State capital
Nigerian Tribune gathered that suspected robbers had been handed over to the Edo State Police Command’s State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, where they had made confessional statements to their involvement in breaking of shops and burning of police stations in Upper Sakponba during the #EndSARS demonstrations last year.
It would be recalled that the Idogbo police post, Ugbekun, St. Saviour and Dumez Road police stations were set ablaze in the heat of the #EndSARS demonstrations in October 2020.
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