Police kill 3 hoodlums in Benue

The Police in Benue State have killed three hoodlums suspected to be involved in an armed robbery operation at ZakiBiam town in Ukum Local Government Area of the state. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Moses Joel Yamu, said on Thursday in Makurdi that the feat was achieved in response to a distress call put […]

The Police in Benue State have killed three hoodlums suspected to be involved in an armed robbery operation at ZakiBiam town in Ukum Local Government Area of the state.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Moses Joel Yamu, said on Thursday in Makurdi that the feat was achieved in response to a distress call put to the police operatives in the area.

“The DPO Ukum Division along with teams of policemen while responding to a distress call at Shima Ayati in Zaki Biam, were engaged in an exchange of gunfire with some hoodlums at the scene of a robbery operation.”

“Three of the hoodlums were decimated while others evidently escaped with bullet wounds. One Beretta pistol with a round of live ammunition, cutlasses and assorted charms were recovered from them,” he stated.

Yamu added that the Commissioner of Police, CP. Ene Okon, following the incident in Zaki Biam where lives and properties were lost last week, has ordered the immediate reinforcement of the men on ground by deploying two more units of mobile policemen to Ukum in order to checkmate the activities of those militia terrorizing the area.

He also said that the Commissioner of Police with tactical Operation Commanders had visited the area in order to boost the morale of his men on ground and appealed to the general public, especially those residing around the area to report anyone seen with bullet wound to the nearest police station.