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  • News - North Central - Kogi
  • Updated: November 20, 2020

Kogi Monarch Narrates Near Death Experience With Robbers On Abuja-Lokoja Highway

Kogi Monarch Narrates Near Death Experience With  Robbers On

Muhammad Ireyi Bello, The Ohi of Adavi in Kogi state has narrated his near-death encounter with armed robbers along the dreaded Abuja-Lokoja highway.

Premium Times reports that the monarch was on his way back from Abuja when he was attacked by highway robbers at Magajiya village.

Bello was said to have been returning from a prayer session held in Abuja for a deceased member of the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Suleiman Kokori.

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According to the king, the armed robber ambushed him and his accomplice while his car reduced its pace to pass through a bad portion of the highway.

He further revealed that the armed men suddenly jumped out of the bush and started firing bullets sporadically at his car,

“It took the sheer courage of his driver to miraculously manoeuvre the car through the rain of bullets without any of the occupants sustaining injury but a minor damage to the car,” the monarch said.

Further kicking against the disbandment of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police, the monarch blamed the increase in robbery attacks and banditry on the unavailability of security men on strategic locations and highways.

“You don’t scrap a whole system because of little defects, especially where there is no immediate substitute,” he said.

In recent times, there have been increased cases of kidnapping and banditry attacks on the Lokoja Abuja highway.

In a recent development, students Ahmadu Bello University were kidnapped on their way to French village in Lagos.

Also, 12 officers, who are assistant superintendents of police, were kidnapped while on their way to Zamfara State from Borno on a special assignment.

The Monarch called on the Buhari led administration to put more effort into ending the increasing case of insecurity and banditry in the northern region and the country at large.

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