{"id":73050,"date":"2018-12-25T23:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73050"},"modified":"2018-12-25T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:23:12","slug":"two-arrested-for-killing-policeman-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73050","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested for killing policeman in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Police Command in Niger State on Tuesday said it arrested two suspects for allegedly killing a Superintendent of Police during robbery operation at Storm Star Hotel Madalla in Suleja Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n

The command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Mr Mohammadu Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement to NAN on Tuesday in Minna.
\nAbubakar, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), alleged that the suspects belonged to an eighth-man gang responsible for armed robbery operation and the killing of police officer on Nov. 15 in his hotel room.<\/p>\n

The deceased was serving under Borno State Police Command.<\/p>\n

The assailants took away items including six Plasma televisions, one Infinix Hot 4 1 phone, a wrist watch and 1,600 dollars as well as N31,000 cash.<\/p>\n

The suspects confessed to the crime while the case is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing everything humanly possible to arrest and prosecute all those involved in the robbery operation .
\nSimilarly on Dec 21, operatives from F-SARS, Minna, arrested one suspect of Gwada village in Shiroro Local Government Area in possession of illicit drugs after executing a search warrant in his medicine store at Gwada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirty-four cartons of the illicit drugs were recovered valued at N4.2 million,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Police Command in Niger State on Tuesday said it arrested two suspects for allegedly killing a Superintendent of Police during robbery operation at Storm Star Hotel Madalla in Suleja Local Government Area of the state. The command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Mr Mohammadu Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement to NAN on Tuesday in Minna. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,56],"class_list":["post-73050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-niger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}