Tony Edike & Chinonye Ibeh
30 June 2008
Enugu — The Police in Enugu at the weekend smashed a gang of armed robbers that attacked a petrol station at Unyi Ogugu in Olamaboro Local Government of Kogi State killing four members of the gang and recovering the sum of N238,200 stolen from their victims.
Another four-man robbery gang popularly known as "one chance" operating with a Golf car with registration number AX 121 UWN who disguised themselves as taxi driver and passengers within Enugu metropolis to dispossess innocent residents of their belongings has also been apprehended.
The state commissioner of police, Mr. Suleman Fakai, who disclosed this while parading 10 armed robbery suspects arrested from parts of the state recently, said that the four armed robbers three of who were shot dead in an exchange of fire with the police, had gone to Unyi Ogugu and robbed pump attendants and customers of various sums of money.
He said that on information, policemen at Udenu division immediately alerted all the stop and search points along the Enugu - Obollo Afor expressway asking them to watch out for the robbers who were heading towards Enugu.
According to him, when the robbers got to Opi stop and search point they opened fire at the policemen resulting to exchange of gunfire during which three of the robbers were shot dead while one other that sustained injuries was arrested.
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