The police on Tuesday announced
that one of the gunmen, who killed four policemen and an army captain at Isawo
in , near Lagos has been killed.
ACP. Abba Kyari, Commander of the
Inspector-General of Police’s Response Team (IRT), made the disclosure in an
interview in Lagos.
Kyari said that after the killing
of the six people, the I-G deployed the team to Ikorodu to apprehend the
suspects.
He said that close monitoring of
the area by the police team led to an encounter that resulted to the death of
the militant.
“On April 16, after several days
of intensive follow up by the IRT team, one of the suspects, Endurance
Ominisan, (a.k.a. Mighty), a native of Arogbo in Ondo State, came out from the
creeks to visit his girlfriend.
Ominisan was visiting the girl at
a house he rented for her at No. 20, Joel Adebolu St., at Ibeshe in Ikorodu.
“The IRT team immediately swooped
on him and surrounded the house.
“On sighting the operatives, the
militant escaped to the roof of the house from where he fired several shots
with his pistol at the IRT team.
“The operatives, swiftly returned
fire and wounded the militant, who was on the roof of the house.
“The injured militant was
eventually brought down from the roof and rushed to General Hospital, Ikorodu,
where he later died.
“He mentioned one America, Stone,
Vika, etc as his gang members, who participated in the killing of the policemen
and a soldier.
“He also confessed that he
participated in the kidnapping of the Oniba of Iba, the Turkish School Girls
and other abductions in Lagos and Ogun States before he died.
“One Turkish made Fatih 13 pistol
with serial No. 12 TF00126 with four expended and five live ammunition were
recovered from him,’’ Kyari said.
He said that the team had
intensified efforts to arrest the remaining members of the gang.
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