Police officer arrested over killing of fuel attendant in robbery

The Niger State Police Command has arrested a serving Mobile Police serviceman implicit his alleged relation successful a deadly equipped robbery that led to the sidesplitting of a substance attendant successful Kontagora Local Government Area.

Security expert Zagazola Makama, successful a station connected X, said the incidental happened connected April 15, 2026, astatine astir 2:40 p.m., aft a distress telephone reported an equipped robbery astatine Garun Mallam Filling Station, down BCG Garage, Kontagora.

Security sources told Makama that 2 equipped men, 1 dressed successful a mobile constabulary azygous and riding a motorcycle, stormed the presumption aft buying substance and demanded wealth from the attendant.

When the attendant, 22-year-old Jibrin Inuwa of Garun Mallam, resisted, helium was changeable successful the thorax and the suspects fled with an undisclosed sum.

He was rushed to the General Hospital, Kontagora, wherever helium was confirmed dormant and aboriginal released to his household for burial according to Islamic rites.

Police patrol teams from ‘A’ Division Kontagora, led by the Divisional Police Officer, aboriginal trailed the suspects to the Dadinkowa country down a vigilante office, wherever a weapon duel ensued.

“The fishy was aboriginal identified arsenic a serving Mobile Police officer, Insp. Jido Ahmed, attached to 61 PMF Kontagora but presently connected peculiar work successful Agwara,” the sources said.

The injured serviceman was treated a...