Police Killed Nine Notorious Armed Robbery Suspects Along Abuja – Kaduna Highway

Police Killed Nine Notorious Armed Robbery Suspects Along Abuja – Kaduna Highway

The Nigeria Police Force said it had killed nine suspected members of
a notorious armed robbery gang at Akilbu forest, off Abuja-Kaduna
Expressway.  

A statement by the Force spokesman, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner
of Police, on Sunday in Abuja, said this followed an exchange of gunfire
between the police and members of the gang on April 10.

Mba said that items recovered from the robbers include: six Ak47
Rifles; one Pump Action Gun; 1,206 rounds of Ak47 ammunition; seven
Magazines; 28 Cartridges and 158 expended shells. He said the items were
recovered from them by police operatives attached to Operation Puff
adder deployed to the area.

Mba said one policeman sustained gunshot wound and was presently
receiving treatment in a hospital. He said that efforts were being
intensified to arrest two members of the gang who escaped with gunshot
wounds.

The spokesman said the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu,
has expressed satisfaction with the successes recorded so far in the
fight against kidnapping and other heinous crimes across the country.
Adamu, who called for public support for the police and other sister
security agencies, assured that the war against bandits would soon be
won.  The inspector-general had on April 5 inaugurated “Operation Puff
Adder ” to fight insecurity along the Abuja -Kaduna highway.