How 4 IGP’s IRT Personnel Were Killed Inside Bush

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Facts have emerged on how four police officers from the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team were brutally murdered by armed bandits over the kidnap of an Islamic cleric in Kaduna State.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that sequel to the kidnapping of Sheikh Ahmad Adam Algarkawy in Rigasa area of Kaduna State on 2nd August, 2018, and his subsequent release after ransom was paid, operatives from the IRT were detailed to track the kidnappers.

In a follow up to the case on 11th August, 2018, IRT operatives arrested two of the kidnappers in a remote settlement inside Rigasa Forest in Kaduna State. As the team was coming out of the bush with the arrested kidnappers, other gang members of the kidnapping syndicate hiding inside the bush ambushed the IRT team and opened fire on them. The attack on the team resulted to the death of 4 IRT operatives.

The members of the team who were killed in the ambush included:

1. AP/No. 148333 Inspr. Bernard Odibo
2. AP/No. 181539 Inspr. Mamman Abubakar
3.AP/No. 192938 Inspr. Haruna Ibrahim
4.F/No. 267815 Sgt. Emmanuel Istifanus.

The bodies of the deceased operatives had been deposited at Saint Gerald Hospital Mortuary, Kaduna State, for autopsy. At the moment, very serious efforts were in progress in order to get the killers to justice.