By Samuel Ogude(Warri)

Two armed- robbery suspects have been reportedly shot dead in Delta Community by the Police. The armed -robbers died in gun duel with police officers in their (robbers) bid to escape. The robbery suspects are Gift Famous A.KA “Bobone” “m” aged 29 years and Edafe Friday Onaibe AKA “Laslas” 1500 “m” aged 25 years.


In a press statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State Command, DSP Bright Edafe, said, on the 2nd December, 2022, the Divisional Police Officer in Ovwian Aladja, CSP Aliyu Shaba, acting on a tip off that two members of the dreaded”Momotimi” gang who had been on the police wanted list for their criminal activities in Warri and other parts of the state, were sighted in a beer parlour at Opete Community in Ovwian Division in Udu Local Government Area ,Delta State. The statement said, armed with this information, the DPO led a team of police operatives and went after them. The statement added that, when the two robbers sighted the police, they opened fire on the police in a bid to escape adding, the police returned fire while giving them a hot chase saying, they were arrested with fatal injuries.

According to the statement, the items recovered from the armed robbery suspects include one locally made single barrel pistol, one cut- to- size locally made double barrel gun, six live cartridges and round of 7.62 AK47 live ammunition. The statement said, both of them died on their way to the hospital. It said, before they died, they have confessed to several robbery attacks, assassination including the murder of Douglas Abugu in Ekpan on the 18th August 2022 because he (Douglas) took over his position of Quarter Chairman when he(Gift Famous) was in prison and he could not get it back on his return. They also confessed to have murdered one” small doctor” in the same Ekpan axis on the 22nd August, 2022.


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