{"id":67148,"date":"2023-10-21T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67148"},"modified":"2023-10-21T23:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T23:01:55","slug":"video-police-apprehend-otukpo-killer-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67148","title":{"rendered":"Video: Police apprehend Otukpo killer-robbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">There are reports that the Police may have apprehended some of the robbers that attacked banks and killed ten persons, including the Divisional Police Officer and two other policemen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">A trending video on social media showed four youngmen in a minivan on a street believed to be in Otukpo or its environ, surrounded by residents, as men believed to be security operatives spoke in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 368px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-67148-1\" width=\"368\" height=\"656\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VID-20231021-WA0026.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VID-20231021-WA0026.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VID-20231021-WA0026.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Since the Police confirmed the incident early on Saturday, there has been no other official statement until the video emerged on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Recall that four banks were attacked in the ancient town and headquarters of Idomaland at about 4.30 p.m. on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">An eyewitness, Sunday Abah, who witnessed the scenes, said the gunmen operated for several hours without security intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cArmed robbers have taken over everywhere in Otukpo. They are just shooting whoever they see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cCurrently, they are robbing Zenith bank and they have been here for more than three hours\u201d, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen one of these in Otukpo for a very long time,\u201d another resident of the town said on Friday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The daredevil bank robbers, armed with assault rifles and other dangerous weapons, carried out the coordinated strike on the four banks leaving 10 individuals, including three police officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">An eyewitness said that the robbers stormed the banks at around 4:30 p.m in two Hilux vehicles and another smaller car, conducting the robbery that lasted about an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">He said the robber shot and killed police officers and a councillor, who was conducting business in one of the banks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The incident caused panic in the town as residents, especially traders, were seen fleeing to safety.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_231021_235430_973.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are reports that the Police may have apprehended some of the robbers that attacked banks and killed ten persons, including the Divisional Police Officer and two other policemen. A trending video on social media showed four youngmen in a minivan on a street believed to be in Otukpo or its environ, surrounded by residents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7],"tags":[1232,5244,234],"class_list":["post-67148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","tag-benue","tag-otukpo","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}