SAN FRANCISCO, January 18, (THEWILL) – Edo state Commissioner of Police, Haliru Gwandu, has revealed that a serving police Inspector, being investigated for extra-judicial killing, would be recommend for discharge from service if found guilty.
Gwandu made this known while speaking at a news a conference on Wednesday in Benin adding that the command had in the last one week arrested 27 suspected criminals in different hideouts in the state.
He revealed that police detectives arrested the suspects with various dangerous arms and ammunition adding that those arrested included six suspected armed robbers, five suspected kidnappers, 13 suspected cultists and three cybercrime suspects.
Gwandu disclosed that some of the arms and ammunition recovered from the bandits includes: cut-to-size guns, cartridges, pistols, locally made short guns, a double barrelled gun and a pump action gun.
The commissioner further disclosed that the command had arrested no fewer than 40 persons for flouting the state government’s directive on the ban on collection of illegal taxes and revenue.
He restated the command’s preparedness to combat crime in the state and stressed that Edo was no longer a safe haven for criminals declaring that all the suspects would be arraigned in court as soon as investigations into the cases were concluded.
Gwandu enjoined all residents of the state to be law abiding and cooperate with the Police by volunteering useful information that would assist the command in taming criminal elements.
