Smugglers Ambush Customs Officers, Kill, Injure Many In Kwara | DETAILS+PHOTOS
Faith Ukanwa
Oct 25, 2022
Smugglers Ambush Customs Officers, Kill, Injure Many In Kwara | DETAILS+PHOTOS
The Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Sector 3 of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) was on Monday, ambushed by suspected smugglers along Sinau-Kenu road in Baruten LGA of Kwara State.
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The group of hoodlums shot sporadically at the personnel while in transit having evacuated some abandoned thirty Jerry cans of PMS and forty bags of rice.
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However, one of the Officers paid the supreme price while three others, sustained various degrees of injury and are being treated in an undisclosed hospital.
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According to the Press Release signed by the Nigeria Customs Service Public Relations Officer Kwara Command, Chado Zakari, the deceased, ASCI Saheed Aweda has been buried according to Islamic rites in his home town, Popogbona in Ilorin West Local Government of Kwara State.
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The Coordinator Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Comptroller Olugboyega Peters has ordered a full-scale investigation to fish out the criminals who perpetrated the crime.
"This trend of unprovoked attacks by faceless cowards whose intention is to instill fear in the minds of law enforcement operatives shall not go unpunished. Neither will it dampen the resolve of officers and men from carrying out their statutory functions" the statement read in part.
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