Recovers one mark truck from them.
On Thursday 8th February 2024 at about 0600hrs, the Divisional Police Officer of Okhuaihe Division, Benin City received a complaint from one Nwoye Ezeako ‘M’ of Umunya Village in Oyi Local Government Area Of Anambra State who reported that on 8th January, 2024 at about 0530hrs he, his truck driver and motor conductor were attacked along Benin-Agbor Road by Okhuaihe Bridge, Benin City by four armed robbers who were with guns and cutlass when transporting 45,000 liters of premium motor spirit (petrol) from Lagos State heading to Onitsha, Anambra State with his Mark Truck Reg. No. ENU 376 XU.
The armed robbers who mounted the Expressway robbed the complainant, his truck driver, and the motor conductor of their belongings shot the truck driver on his chest. They also wounded the motor conductor on his foreheads with a cutlass and shot the complainant on his hand.
On the arrival of the DPO and his men at the scene, they immediately rushed the victims to Aigbogun Hospital for treatment and the medical doctor confirmed dead the truck driver, his motor conductor and their bodies deposited at the hospital mortuary while the complainant recovered as he responded to treatment.
The DPO Ukhuaihe Division, in collaboration with the DPO Egba Division, Benin City, using technical intelligence, arrested two of the male suspects at Ehor Edo State when selling petrol to people from the robbed Mack Truck. The suspects whose names are (1) Daniel Amuzoga, 33 years from Ukwuani in Delta State, and (2) Christopher Omiose, 30 years from Esan land in Edo State and they are assisting the Police in the investigation.
E-SIGN
SP CHIDI NWABUZOR, Anipr,
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
EDO STATE COMMAND,
BENIN CITY.
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