2 suspects involved in killing of 3 policemen, 1 civilian arrested

Two suspects involved in the killing of three policemen and a civilian who were murdered in cold blood at Woji area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have been arrested by police.

The suspects were reportedly nabbed by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence, Response Team, IRT, after a tip-off.

According to the police, the robbery gang which also specialises in snatching Toyota Sienna vans and robbing super markets across the Garden City, confessed to have been responsible for the killing of the three policemen and their driver.

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A member of the IRT team who pleaded anonymity said the police were trailing kidnappers of British- Nigeria national, Professor Mrs. Belgaum, who was abducted and released after an unknown amount was paid, when they apprehended the suspects.

The IRT source said; “we were trailing kidnappers of Professor Belgaum, a British Nigerian, who is equally a medical doctor working at the University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, when we stumbled on these suspects.

“We learned that the people who kidnapped the professor carried out the operation with a black Toyota Sienna and we contacted our informants within Port-Harcourt who gave us the identities of the suspects, Dumlebabari Mbane and Godswill Jackson, who they said specialized in robbing Toyota Sienna vans within Rivers State.

“We went after them and got them arrested, but they confessed during interrogations that they were not part of the gang who kidnapped Professor Belgaum, but they admitted to have taken part in the killing of three policemen and their driver at Woji area of the state.

“They led us to recover two Toyota Sienna vans which they robbed from residents of Port Harcourt and two of the Ak-47rifles they took from the policemen they killed,” the source added.

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