{"id":442657,"date":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/17\/bandits-kill-inspector-council-workers-in-taraba\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","slug":"bandits-kill-inspector-council-workers-in-taraba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/bandits-kill-inspector-council-workers-in-taraba\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits kill inspector, council  workers in Taraba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"51.0472527473\"><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ngrguardiannews.com\/plugins\/content\/valaddthis\/images\/share-long.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"48\">\n<p><strong><span>Police arrest two with human skulls, tongue<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>BANDITS have killed a police inspector, Simon Alev and two officials of Yorro Local Council of Taraba State. They died during an attack on the escort team of a vehicle with the council workers\u2019 salary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Guardian<\/span><\/em> <span>learnt that the officials, who were clerks, died on the spot while others sustained various degrees of injuries.\u00a0<\/span><span><span>The council chairman, Mallam Salihu Gidado, confirmed the incident.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, two persons have been caught with seven human skulls and a tongue by the police in the state. They were paraded before journalists yesterday by the Taraba State Police Commissioner, Mrs. Chutua Amajo Onu, at the command\u2019s headquarters in Jalingo, the state capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The suspects, identified as Amadu Ali and Aondowase\u00a0Thomas, were arrested at different locations in the state following a tip off from residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Onu, who confirmed the bandits\u2019 attack, said: \u201cOne of my men and two officials of the local council, whom we learnt were clerks, were as also killed by the armed robbers\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The council chief (Gidado) identified inadequate and poor police presence as contributing to the robbery cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Ali, who said he had been in the illegal business (sale of human skulls) for long, was arrested in Zing Local Council while Thomas was caught at Dan-Anacha in Gassol Local Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ngrguardiannews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=51567:bandits-kill-inspector-council-workers-in-taraba&amp;catid=1:national&amp;Itemid=559\" title=\"Bandits kill inspector, council  workers in Taraba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandits kill inspector, council  workers in Taraba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Police arrest two with human skulls, tongue BANDITS have killed a police inspector, Simon Alev and two officials of Yorro Local Council of Taraba State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":442658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-442657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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