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Two Soldiers, Three Others Arrested For Robbing POS Agent In Borno
Borno State Commissioner of Police Abdu Umar, has disclosed that two soldiers and three other suspects were arrested for armed robbery.
Disclosing this in Maiduguri on Wednesday, he stated that the victim of the robbery was a Point of Sale agent identified as Yusuf Usman.
According to the police boss, the robbery was carried out on February 6 GSM Market, Bulumkutu, where the gang shot and killed a man, leaving another with injuries.
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He said that operatives of the Command initially arrested three of the suspects – Mustapha Lawan, alias Bakura Dantawaye, Abubakar Mohammed, alias Bro Shagi, and Umar Ibrahim.
He said the trio confessed to the crime and named two other members of the gang, who were soldiers, lgogo Michael and Jibrin Adamu.
Umar said that the police trailed and arrested the two soldiers on Sunday, adding that they also confessed to the crime.
“They (two soldiers) were court-martialed by the military authority before being transferred to the command for further investigation,” he said.