Police Kill Seven Robbers In Edo

Seven suspected robbers were shot dead,
Sunday, along the notorious Benin by-pass,
during a gun battle between the police and the
robbers.
The operation was personally led by the Edo
State Commissioner of Police, Mr Folusho
Adebanjo.
At press time, the CP and a special squad of
detectives were still combing the area popular
referred as haven for robbers. Some of the
robbers, according to CP Adebanjo, were still
in the bushes with bullet wounds.
As at 10:30am when the bodies of the dead
robbers were brought to the Edo State Police
Command, one of the robbers who identified
himself as Sanda from Kebbi State, was still
alive and he confessed that he only joined his
dead colleagues for the first time, because he
needed money to go back to Kebbi State.
One AK 47, cutlasses and assorted charms were
recovered from the armed bandits. It would be
recalled that passengers and drivers have been
robbed almost on daily basis along the Benin
by-pass, while in most cases the women among
the passengers were Molested by the armed
bandits who are mainly Hausa Fulanis.
However, Adebanjo who is known for his zero
tolerance as regards activities of robbers in the
state narrated that “this operation took place
at about 5:30-6am. Because we noticed that
arm robbers who operate there always come
out early hours when people are travelling or
going to the market for their businesses.
Their activities along that by-pass have become
an embarrassment and with intelligence which
we gathered, we laid an ambush.
“What happens is that they normally come with
a bus where they load themselves and when
they get to the by-pass they distribute
themselves to different locations to perpetrate
their evil. You will look at the bus as an old
one, maybe you will even think they are going
to the farm but they are dare devil armed
robbers.
“You that the by-pass leads to different states
but unfortunately these hoodlums made that
place haven for operation. So we stormed
there this morning following a tip off, we met
them and engaged them. They engaged us too
the result is what you are looking at now.
Some of them are still in the bushes with
bullet wounds, my men are still there pushing
them and I am going back there myself
because we are going to round all of them up.
“Armed robbers cannot be safe anywhere in
Edo state. That is the message we have for
them throughout this festive period and next
year” he asserted.