Segun Atanda/
Four officers attached to the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), led by DCP Abba Kyari, have been killed in an ambush while pursuing kidnappers in Kaduna State.
The police identified the slain officers as “AP/No. 148333, Inspr. Benard Odibo; AP/No. 181539, Inspr. Mamman Abubakar; AP/No. 192938, Inspr. Haruna Ibrahim, and F/No. 267815, Sgt. Emmanuel Istifanus.
Police authorities in a terse statement told NewsmakersNG today how the men were killed.
The statement says: “Sequel to the Kidnapping of Sheikh Ahmad Adam Algarkawy in Rigasa area of Kaduna State on 2/8/18 and his subsequent release after a ransom was paid. In follow up to the case on 11/8/18, IRT operatives arrested two of the kidnappers in a remote settlement inside Rigasa Forrest Kaduna State. As members of the team were coming out of the bush with the arrested kidnappers, other gang-members hiding inside the bush ambushed the IRT team and opened fire which resulted in the death of 4 IRT operatives…
“Bodies of the deceased operatives were deposited at Saint Gerald Hospital Mortuary Kaduna State for an autopsy. Very serious efforts in progress to get the killers to Justice.”
