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SCORES OF BANDITS KILLED IN MINNA: NIGER STATE

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February 13, 2023

Stella Charles Akupue

SCORES OF BANDITS KILLED IN MINNA: NIGER STATE

Scores of bandits have been killed in a gun duel with a combined team of police from Gawu Babangida and Paiko division military and vigilante members in Niger state.

Similarly, Divisional Police Officer DPO Paiko division Supretendant of Police Mukhtar Sabiu and four other police officers from both divisions paid the maximum price during the encounter.

Police Public Relations Officer DSP Wasiu Abiodun stated this in a statement issued to Newsmen in Minna.

According to the statement, combined teams of police from Gawu-Babangida Division and Paiko Division military and vigilante members were drafted to the scene; the hoodlums were engaged in a gun duel and repelled, with scores of them being neutralized, while others escaped with some bullet wounds.

SCORES OF BANDITS KILLED IN MINNA: NIGER STATE

Commissioner of Police in charge of Niger State, Mr Ogundele Ayodeji, has led a reinforcement team to the scene and recovered the bodies of the deceased personnel.

He, however, condoles with the families of the affected person and reassured members of the public that the Command will not relent in the fight against banditry and all forms of criminality in the State.

COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN CHARGE OF NIGER STATE.