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Suspected killers of UNIBEN don nabbed by cops
The suspected killers of Professor Paul Osatowie of the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics, University of Benin have been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command.
Mr. Johnson Babatunde Kokumo, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, said the suspected killers of the University don were among 31 other suspects alleged to have been arrested in different parts of the state.
The CP disclosed that the suspected killers of Prof. Osatowie were nabbed after the GSM phone, belonging to the late University don was recovered from one of the suspects.
The CP said: “A close family member of the late don had since identified the phone as belonging to him.”
Read also: Unknown assailants gun down UNIBEN lecturer
The CP said that the arrest of the suspects was recorded shortly after his resumption of duty on Monday.
Prof. Osatowie was shot dead about three weeks ago by unknown gunmen suspected to be hired assassins in front of his residence located at Siluko in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
However, there were different accounts as to how the University lecturer was killed with one version claiming he was shot while climbing down the staircase of his one-story building while the other version had it that he was killed immediately he drove into his compound.
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