Six police officers were gruesomely murdered in Ohoro Forest, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State and the same number declared missing after they were ambushed during a rescue mission of their colleagues.
According to Force spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi, the security operatives are still in the hunt for the missing officers weeks after the incident.
“We have been able to arrest nine of them. We first arrested five of them. Last week, we made an additional arrest of three and I think on Sunday, we arrested another one,” the police spokesman added.
Adejobi who made this known during a televised monitored interview with newsmen stated that it would take the police some time to declare the slain officer’s dead owing to some provisions of the law which requires that people are only pronounced dead when their corpses are recovered.
“Up till now, according to the provisions of the law, we are still searching for the six persons. Nobody can declare them dead. Hopefully, we are going to get them,” he said on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
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