The Niger State Police Command has announced the arrest of several suspects in connection with alleged assassination plots, thuggery, drug cultivation, illegal immigration, and attempted culpable homicide across the state.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, said two suspected assassins were arrested on August 23 at the railway crossing, Beji, in the Maikunkele area of Bosso Local Government.
He said, “A locally made pistol, a live cartridge and a sum of thirteen thousand naira were recovered” from the suspects, identified as Muhammad Mohammed, 40, and Mohammed Usman, 35.
The statement added: “During interrogation, both suspects confessed that they were hired by one Dogo of Beji to assassinate a person around the railway crossing area, and they were on their way to collect the service charge of one hundred thousand naira from Dogo before being arrested.
They further claimed that Dogo initially gave them the sum of thirteen thousand naira as a transport fee, while they charged him one hundred thousand naira for the assignment.”
Preliminary investigation, according to the Command, revealed that “Dogo intended to kill the fellow because he married his ex-wife.”
The suspects have since been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation and prosecution. The PPRO said, “effort to apprehend the said Dogo is intensified.