The Kogi State Police Command has arrested a fake soldier identified
as Monday Shaibu, who has been using the uniform to rob motorist and
travellers of their belongings within Kogi East axis.
Shaibu was paraded alongside eleven other suspects for offences
ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, culpable homicide, motorcycle
and car-snatching.
Parading the suspects on Wednesday evening, the Kogi State
Commissioner of Police, CP Ede Ayuba Ekpeji, said on 25th of January,
2020, Police operatives and vigilantes while on routine patrol
intercepted and arrested Shaibu with a Bajaj motorcycle.
During interrogation, CP Ekpeji said the suspect could not give satisfactory account of himself and the motorcycle.
It was further revealed by the Police CP that the suspect conspired
with one Peter and robbed the owner of the motorcycle after parading to
be military personnel at Ayingba.
Ekpeji, however, added that, the trio of Ahmed Abah, Yauza Adamu, and
Idris Sani were arrested on 28th January, 2020 for armed robbery.
According to him, “Operatives attached to the Special Anti Robbery
Squad while on routine patrol intercepted a Toyota Highlander 2009 model
with Reg. No. Lagos SMK 963 FZ with three occupant namely Ahmed Abah,
Yauza Adamu, and Idris Sani. During interrogation, the suspect confessed
to have stole the vehicle from Lagos.”
The Police also paraded the trio of Mohammed Yahaya, Idris Bello, and
Nafiu Bello for alleged armed robbery and car snatching. Ekpeji while
giving a brief on the above suspect hinted that on the 18th of December,
2019, in the evening, the three suspects who have been terrorizing
Lokoja and its environ snatched at gun point one unregistered Toyota
Sienna and other valuables along Old Stadium Road, Lokoja.
He said one of the suspects, Idris Bello, after he was arrested led
detectives to his house were one locally made revolver pistol with live
ammunitions were recovered.
Other suspects paraded by the Police includes Mustapha James Onuh,
Abubakar Achaji Ali, Ibrahim Mallam Barto, Bello Suleiman, Aliyu
Ibrahim, and Yakubu Dunca,
“The achievement in curbing crime from Kogi State could be attributed
to the command continued measures to adopt common problem solving
strategies for effective result on the community policing which has
improved public confidence in public spirited individuals coming forward
to provide valuable information on criminal elements and their
activities.
“These achievement were due to the proactive strategies rooted in
intelligence led policing, and robust interaction with the various
strata of our communities, particularly in the area of information
gathering, since it has become obvious that security is an all
stakeholders affair.
“Our policing style has provided avenue for effective collaboration
with other critical stakeholders by giving them access to share
information and intelligence that will assist in crime control and
management” he stated.
Items recovered from the suspects included three motor cycle, one
Toyota corolla, Toyota big for nothing, one Siena, one Toyota
highlander, three pistols, cartridges, one decoder and fives wrist
watches.