Security operatives arrest 4 impostors of proscribed Nigerian Merchant Naval Corps
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Security operatives arrested four impostors of the proscribed Nigerian Merchant Naval Corps at the office of the Chairman, Irepodun/ Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State, on Wednesday.
The Chairman, Shina Ogunleye, told newsmen in Ado Ekiti that the four men were nabbed by the Police and men of the Department of State Services (DSS) acting on a tip-off.
He said the gun-wielding “corps members’’ clad in Navy uniform, were rounded up at the headquarters of the council at Igede-Ekiti.
Ogunleye said he suspected that culprits were in his office to kidnap him.
By Victor Ogunje in Ado-Ekiti and Bassey Inyang in Calabar
No fewer than two policemen were killed yesterday and their rifles stolen by gunmen in two communities in Cross River State.
A Chinese expatriate was also on Tuesday evening kidnapped by bandits in Ekiti State and his whereabouts were yet to be ascertained by security agencies as at yesterday.
In the Cross River State incidents, the gunmen killed the policemen at two checkpoints at Ofatura and Onyadama in Obubra Local Government Area, in the early hours of yesterday.
There was an unconfirmed report that six policemen and a soldier were killed in the attacks.