Edo Police Nab Killers of NTA Reporter; says they are Cultists who were engaged in Gang War-CP Gwandu.

The Police in Edo State have arrested the killers of late Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) reporter in Edo State, Mr. Lawrence Okojie, with the Commissioner of Police, CP Haliru Gwandu disclosing that the killers were cultists and not armed robbers as widely believed.

The late Lawrence Okojie was laid to rest in his village, Olinlin-Uzea, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State, on Saturday.

Throwing light on the arrest of the killers, CP Gwandu said, “It was a cult related matter. The cultists were fighting around that area and unfortunately the NTA reporter ran into their shooting and he was killed while he was trekking back home after work.

“But, we were able to arrest the guy who gunned him down. The guy is cooling in prison right now because it was a clear case of murder.”

CP Gwandu further disclosed that following incessant compliants of armed robbery and kidnappers attack on the Benin-Ore-Lagos road; security has been beefed up with the deployment of Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, which carries out round the clock patrol of the road.

“Right now, we are patrolling the area with APC, which is why if you observed, in the past two months, there had been no robbery attack on that road.

 “We have seen enough peace here in the past two months. In the past, we received incessant reports of attacks, especially on the Benin-Ore express road, but today, that is no longer the case because of the measures we had put in place.”

CP Gwandu, who was giving update of police efforts at curtailing criminality in Edo State, paraded 70 suspected armed robbers, cultists and kidnappers in Benin City.

 He said, “In the statistics of arrests, we have nine cases of armed robbery reported and we arrested 36 of the suspects. We have recovered so many exhibits.

“We have received six cases of kidnapping and we apprehended 18 suspects.”

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