Operatives of the FCT Police Command shot dead two out of four suspected armed robbers on Thursday while they were attempting to snatch a Prado Jeep at gunpoint in the Jahi area of Abuja.
FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Benneth Igweh, disclosed this to newsmen while parading two arrested members of the robbery gang at the Command’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday.
Igweh explained that the incident occurred around 10:45 pm when the four-man robbery gang confronted police operatives on a crime prevention patrol, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Mabushi police division.
The robbers opened fire upon spotting the police, leading to a fierce gun battle in which two of the suspects were neutralized.
“While during the crossfire with our men, two among the four-man robbery gang, whose names were identified as Joshua Godfrey a.k.a. Dogo and Abdulsalam Mamuda both of Mabushi Village were arrested,” he said.
He said it was a blue Toyota Matrix operational vehicle with registration. No. BWR 626 JB, was recovered from the robbers.
Igweh, however, said the two arrested suspects subsequently led police operatives to the recovery of another Toyota Corolla car with registration number RBC 743 AH, which must have been snatched from an innocent resident.
The CP, while reaffirming the Command’s unflinching commitment to ensuring the safety and security of lives and properties, urged residents and all medical facilities in FCT to be on watch out and to call the attention of the police to anybody sighted with bullet wounds.
