The Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Sector three of the Nigeria Customs Service has been ambushed alongside Sinau-Kenu street in Baruten LGA of Kwara State.
The organization of hoodlums shot sporadically and pelted the Personnel with different risky gadgets at the same time as in transit having evacuated a few deserted thirty jerry cans of PMS and 40 luggage of rice.
However, one of the Officers paid the ideal charge at the same time as 3 others, maintain diverse various levels of harm and are being dealt with in an undisclosed hospital.
According to the Press Release signed via way of means of the Nigeria Customs Service Public Relations Officer Kwara Command, Chado Zakari, the deceased, ASCI Saheed Aweda has been buried in step with Islamic rites in his domestic town, Popogbona in Ilorin West Local Government of Kwara State.
He stated Comptroller Olugboyega Peters, Representatives of DSS, NPF, ONSA, NIA, Immigration and different safety companies have visited the own circle of relatives of the deceased to commiserate with them and prayed for the deceased officer whose sacrifice is deeply liked and held in excessive esteem.
Meanwhile, the Coordinator Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Compt. Olugboyega Peters has ordered a full-scale research to fish out the criminals who perpetuated the inhuman aggression. “This fashion of unprovoked assaults through faceless cowards whose purpose is to instil worry withinside the minds of regulation enforcement operatives shall now no longer move unpunished. Neither will it hose down the solve of officials and guys from wearing out their statutory functions.” The Release additionally reads.
While thanking the intervention and reinforcements from JBPT Headquarters Team, JBPT Ilesha Baruba, Kwara Command, Customs Police and 224 Recce Battalion of the Nigeria Army for fast action, he states that the Sector will keep to prosecute the anti-smuggling campaign regardless of the unwarranted assaults.
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