Benue governor Hyacinth Alia has assured that perpetrators of the coordinated bank robberies in Otukpo town, Otukpo Local Government Area of the State cannot get away with it as security agencies are on their trail.
The Governor said the deadly gunmen must be apprehended and brought to justice in a statement in a statement on Friday signed by his Chief Press Secretary Sir Tersoo Kula.
The Governor disclosed that the attacks were carried out at the exact time the Security Council meeting was in progress at the Government House, Makurdi.
Alia sympathized with the families of those who were gruesomely murdered by the robbers during the robbery.
He said, “It is an unfortunate development that people who were on duty, especially police officers, were shot and killed in cold blood by those mindless robbers.
“But they cannot get away with this. Already, security agencies are on their trail and must apprehend and bring them to justice”.
He called on the people of the State to be vigilant and always endeavour to report suspicious movements around them all the time.
The Punch Metro published that robbers, during the operation which lasted for hours, gunned down no fewer than six customers and four policemen.