These were not only murdered, the corpses were mutilated and dismembered and video of the scenes were circulated to the public.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdejobi therefore vowed that all those connected with the incident, still at large, will be arrested in due time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stated also that the police were working towards the recovery of the missing men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are still waiting to recover all the corpses.\u00a0 We have recovered three, but three are still missing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe police spokesman dismissed the reports of discouragement within the police, saying: \u201cNotwithstanding cases of attacks against our men, our men are undeterred to carry out their responsibility of maintaining peace and order across the country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdejobi noted that the Inspector-General (IG), Kayode Egbetokun, has been doing a lot to keep the spirit of rank and file within the polce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe IGP has contacted the families of the six and the IGP has decided to give them posthumous awards scheduled for April 15.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cOn same day, men who have distinguished themselves and are still in service will be honoured. This will be the first time that officers across board will be honoured.\u00a0 Our fallen heroes will be honoured also.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cAll police officers, who have done so well, will be recognised. All the entitlements of the fallen heroes will be fast-tracked and settled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nNation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The police on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of one more suspect linked to the murder of six policemen in Delta State.\u00a0 This brings the number of arrested suspects to nine. Force spokesperson, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, confirming this said he was giving an update on progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80441,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80439\/revisions\/80441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}