Following reports about armed robbery incidents and the attack of a police checkpoint on 4/6/2020 at Lafia-Makurdi road that led to the death of Inspector Boniface Odeh and the loss of an AK47 rifle, a team of police officers were detailed to trail the armed robbers terrorising commuters on the road.
While on the trail, information was received on 12/6/2020 at about 0440hrs that armed robbers were operating on the same road. The team of police officers swiftly moved to the scene and met the hoodlums dressed in military camouflage and police uniforms. They engaged the police in a gun duel that lasted for about 20 minutes. In the process, seven (7) of the armed robbers sustained various degrees of bullet wounds and were rushed to Benue State University Teaching Hospital were they eventually died and their corpses have been deposited at the morgue for autopsy.
Items recovered from them include the missing AK47 rifle, one other AK47 rifle loaded with twenty-one live ammunition, one locally-made pistol with two cartridges, two Dane guns, four (4) touch lights, four (4) machetes, nine (9) cell phones and assorted charms.
Criminals are warned to desist from their evil ways or face the full wrath of the law as the command will not leave any stone unturned in the fight against crime.
DSP. ANENE SEWUESE CATHERINE
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
BENUE STATE POLICE COMMAND.
12TH JUNE, 2020.
