SOWORE UPDATE: He defied bandits’ order, and they… police explains

The Edo state police command has given more update on the effort to arrest Olajide Sowore’s killers who shot him at Ovia North East LGA on September 4.

According to the command’s PRO Kontongs Bello, the criminals will be apprehended soon because police and local hunters began combing the bush on the very day of the incident.

“It has become very necessary for the police to inform the general public that the police are on top of the situation since the incident happened yesterday (Saturday) at about 6:45a.m,” he said in a statement on September 5..

He made it clear the younger brother of the former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore was not one of the passengers of a commercial bus belonging to a private company that broke down at about 2:00 a.m., which the kidnappers targeted.

“Sowore, who was coming from Okada and was going towards Benin, was just a victim whom they tried to stop and he refused and they shot at his car.”

“The commissioner of police, Phillip Ogbadu, is doing everything possible to ensure that these people are arrested and those kidnapped are rescued,“  the statement  said.

The statement said that the kidnappers have yet to establish contacts with the family of their victims.

The National Daily reported how Sowore’s car was riddled with bullets, and his elder brother’s account that kidnappers shot and killed him.