By Arthur Madumere

The intelligence gathering embarked on by the Taraba State Police Command, shortly after the gruesome murder of the Ardo-Kola council chairman, Saliu Dovo last Sunday, was said to have led to the arrest of some of the suspects.

The four suspects arrested and in police custody, have confessed to have carried out the dastardly crime.

Briefing IgbereTv in Jalingo on how the suspects were tracked down, the Police Public Relations Officer, David Misal, a deputy superintendent of Police (DSP), said "in our efforts to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book, we immediately embarked on intelligence gathering" which yielded positive results.

Though one of the suspects as made known by him died while receiving treatment on a hospital bed after the villagers attacked him while trying to escape from the village, the police have however assured the public that none of the perpetrators will escape.

He said, "when officers were deployed for the mission, they discovered that the villagers mobilized too and went after him, descended on the deceased and beat him to stupor''. He added that "the suspect however could not survive the injury he sustained from the mob".

It would be recalled that the late council boss was gruesomely gunned down on Sunday by unknown assailants shortly after being abducted from his Jalingo resident which is directly located opposite the police mobile barracks situated in Sabon-Gari area of Jalingo metropolis.