Police parade 52 suspects for various offences in Kogi
Parading the suspects at the command headquarter in Lokoja on Wednesday, the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Busari, said the operatives attached to the command, working on actionable intelligence and in compliance with IGP’s directives to clamped down on political thugs determined to disrupt the general elections in Kogi State have arrested the gang responsible for various electoral violence as well as kidnapping of some innocent citizens across the State.
According to him, the suspects arrested confessed to their various criminal roles in the commission of the crime adding that, they have admitted to have participated in Political thuggery in the just concluded elections and several kidnapping/armed robberies attacks on innocent travellers on the major highway across the State.
“In the Process, the Suspect brought out a locally made double barrel pistol and opened fire and as a result, one Mercy Daramola and Tunde Oladipo sustained injuries. They proceeded to another polling unit to disrupt the electoral process but were arrested and a bag containing locally made double barrel pistols was recovered from them,” he added.
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