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Police authorities are still searching for six officers who got missing in Delta State, according to Force spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi.North Local Government Area of Delta State and the same number declared missing after they were ambushed.
“Up till now, according to the provisions of the law, we are still searching for the six persons. Nobody can declare them dead. Hopefully, we are going to get them,” he said on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’sAccording to him, it took the police some time to declare the slain officers dead owing to the provisions of the law.“We did not come out to say it on time because we were actually waiting to get the corpses – were were able to recover six,” he said.
“We have been able to arrest nine of them. We first arrested five of them. Last week, we make additional arrest of three and I think on Sunday, we arrested another one,” the police spokesman added.Advertisement The murdered soldiers were on a peace mission in Okwuama community of Ughelli South Local Government Area , in an incident that caused nationwide outrage and condemnation.
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