Six Suspected Robbers Die In Gun Duel With A’Ibom Police


About six suspected members of an armed robbery gang who specialises in car-snatching and selling across Akwa Ibom and Cross River states have been gunned down during a shootout with police operatives from the Akwa Ibom state police command.

The state commissioner of police, CP, Mr Amiengheme Andrew disclosed this while parading the dead robbers in Uyo over the weekend said the shootout took place along the Calabar-Itu highway. The deceased were said to have already contacted a buyer for the stolen vehicle.


Andrew who resumed duties only a fortnight ago, explained that the dead robbers were on their way to Abia state to sell the car they had earlier snatched from a Calabar-based medical doctor when they met a patrol team of the state command of the police.



“On sighting the police Hilux van the hoodlums opened fire on the operatives. A gun battle ensued and the six armed robbers sustained gun wounds.

“They were taken to the police hospital in Uyo for treatment but they were confirmed dead by the doctor. Exhibits recovered included a Toyota Camry car snatched from the victim, Dr Arinze Obinna, a physiotherapist at the General Hospital, Calabar.”

Obinna, in an interaction with newsmen, said the car was stolen by the hoodlums at gunpoint while he was returning home with his famil.

The CP warned hoodlums engaged in cultism, armed robbery, rape and other vices to desist forthwith or leave the state as the command “under my watch has no room to accommodate any form of crime .