The Niger State Police Commissioner, Ogundele Ayodeji, says a preliminary investigation has revealed an in-house conspiracy to the robbery attack at the Emir of Minna Palace on Tuesday.
Ayodeji stated this in a chat with newsmen, on the sideline of the G-7 states Technical Committee Meeting in Abuja yesterday.
He recalled that the hoodlums attacked the palace on Tuesday afternoon, killed two palace guards and carted away N3.3 million. He said that ongoing investigation suggests that the robbers connived with someone in the palace to perpetrate the crime.
The commissioner further said that his men were already trailing the criminals, and expressed confidence that they would be caught sooner or later.
“From the reports I have received, there seems to be an in-house conspiracy to the crime, and I am confident that the criminals will be caught sooner or later,” he said.
He described the G-7 platform, made up of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its six neighbouring States, as “very strategic” in fighting cross-border crime among the member States, adding that the G-7 technical committee comprised security chiefs of the FCT, Benue, Kaduna, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau States.
Ayodeji said that the meeting was long overdue, adding that jointactions, operations, and clearing of bandits within the member States would be done simultaneously.
The G-7 was initiated in 2007 by the then Minister of the FCT, Dr. Modibbo Umar, to deal with issues of criminality that were plaguing the FCT and its contiguous States.
