The Kogi State Police Command has arrested a fake soldier identified as Monday Shaibu who allegedly used the military uniform to rob motorists and travellers of their belongings in Kogi East axis.
Shaibu was paraded alongside eleven other suspects for offences ranging from armed robbery to kidnapping, culpable homicide and motorcycle/car theft.
Parading the suspects, the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, CP Ede Ayuba Ekpeji, said, “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 occupants namely Ahmed Abah, Yauza Adamu, and Idris Sani. During interrogation, the suspects confessed to have stole the vehicle from Lagos.”
The Police also paraded the trio of Mohammed Yahaya, Idris Bello, and Nafiu Bello for alleged robbery and car theft. Ekpeji while giving a brief on the suspects hinted that “on the 18th of December, 2019, in the evening, the three suspects, who have been terrorizing Lokoja and its environ, snatched at gunpoint, 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 where one locally-made revolver and other live ammunition were recovered.
The police also listed other recovered items as three motorcycles, one Toyota Corolla, Toyota ‘big for nothing’, one Sienna, one Toyota highlander, three pistols, cartridges, one decoder and fives wristwatches.
Other suspects paraded by the Police includes Mustapha James Onuh, Abubakar Achaji Ali, Ibrahim Mallam Barto, Bello Suleiman, Aliyu Ibrahim, and Yakubu Dunca.
