…Edo State Police Commissioner Betty Otimenyin “has ordered the immediate transfer of the matter to the State CID.”
The Edo Police Command has arrested two people in connection with an attack on the Igukpe community in Benin City, the capital of Edo State, in which a youth leader was shot and one other person was injured.
In a statement released on Saturday, Edo Police Command spokesman Moses Yamu confirmed the attack.
“On 28/02/2025 at about 16:00hrs, the command received a report that one Edobor Edwin, the former Okiaghele of Iguikpe Community Benin-City led thugs to the community shooting sporadically, as a result, the incumbent Okiaghele of the community, Victor Ogierioba, and one Efe Agbaoghogho sustained fatal gunshots injuries on the stomach and face respectively,” Yamu said.
“Operatives of the Iyekogba Division alongside that of Operation Rescue responded swiftly and arrested one Osator surname not known and Edobor Edwin the principal suspect in the attack and restored normalcy to the area, while efforts are intensified to arrest other fleeing suspects of the attack,” the statement read.
He said the Commissioner of Police in Edo State Betty Otimenyin “has ordered the immediate transfer of the matter to the State CID”.
The commissioner urged Edo residents to resist taking laws into their hands as the police will no longer tolerate further acts of lawlessness in the state.
