UPDATE – Police Combs Forest For Sowore Brother’s Killers In Edo

Police operatives in Edo State have began combing forest to arrest the suspected killers of Olajide Sowore, the youthful brother of Sahara Reporters’ writer, Omoyele Sowore.

 

The spokesman of the state police command, Kontongs Bello, said this in a chat with journalists in Benin on Sunday.

 

Suspected kidnappers shot dead Sowore, an undergraduate pupil of Pharmacy on the Igbinedion College, Okada, alongside the Benin-Lagos freeway on Saturday.

 

Bello mentioned: “It has grow to be very essential for the police to tell most of the people that the police are on high of the scenario because the incident occurred at 6:45 a.m. yesterday (Saturday).

“Bush combing began yesterday and the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Philip Ogbadu, has directed that each one the tactical groups and the Divisional Police in Okada be a part of fingers in combing the forest.

 

“The native vigilantes in Okada, the police crew from the state headquarters and the divisional police within the space are all collectively combing the bush to arrest the perpetrators and in addition rescue 5 others who’re nonetheless with the abductors.

 

The spokesman mentioned Sowore was not one of many occupants of a business bus, belonging to a personal firm that developed a fault at about 2:00 a.m. and have become the goal for the abductors.

 

He added: “Sowore, who was coming from Okada and was going in the direction of Benin, was only a sufferer whom they tried to cease. He refused and so they shot at his car.

 

“The Commissioner of Police is doing every part potential to make sure that these individuals are arrested and people kidnapped are rescued.”