{"id":33826,"date":"2019-08-08T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=33826"},"modified":"2019-08-08T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:37:47","slug":"igp-orders-investigation-into-alleged-killing-of-3-policemen-civilian-by-soldiers-in-taraba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/igp-orders-investigation-into-alleged-killing-of-3-policemen-civilian-by-soldiers-in-taraba\/","title":{"rendered":"IGP Orders Investigation Into Alleged Killing Of 3 Policemen, Civilian By Soldiers In Taraba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu has ordered full fledged investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of three (3) Police operatives and one (1) Civilian, and serious degree of injuries to other Police operatives who were on investigation activities to Ibi, Taraba State to arrest one Alhaji Hamisu indicted in a series of high profile kidnap incidents in the State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Police Operatives, led by ASP Felix Adolije of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) reportedly came under sudden attack and serious shooting by soldiers of the Nigerian Army along Ibi \u2013 Jalingo Road, Taraba State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They were said to be taking the arrested suspect, Alhaji Hamisu to the Command Headquarters in Jalingo when they were allegedly shot at severally by the soldiers despite sufficient proof that they were Police personnel on legitimate duty.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Three Policemen, an Inspector and two Sergeants and one civilian died as a result of gunshot injuries sustained in the attack while others sustained serious gunshot wounds.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the Force Public Relations Officer,\u00a0DCP Frank Mba,\u00a0the soldiers after attacking the police operatives, released the handcuffed suspect, Alhaji Hamisu who is now on the run.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Alhaji Hamisu, a notorious kidnap kingpin has been on the Police wanted list for his complicity in several high profile kidnap cases including the recent abduction of an Oil Mogul in Taraba State wherein a ransom of about One Hundred Million Naira (N100,000,000) was paid.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The IGP has ordered the AIG Medicals to proceed to Jalingo to ensure concerted efforts in the treatment of the injured Police officers while the remains of the deceased have been deposited in the morgue.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile, the Force has commenced full investigation into the bizarre and unfortunate incident has ordered by the IGP.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu has ordered full fledged investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of three (3) Police operatives and one (1) Civilian, and serious degree of injuries to other Police operatives who were on investigation activities to Ibi, Taraba State to arrest one Alhaji Hamisu indicted in a series &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[1571,262,4617],"coauthors":[2394],"class_list":["post-33826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crime","category-news","tag-igp","tag-soldiers","tag-taraba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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