Police officer arrested over alleged armed robbery and murder of fuel attendant at a filling station in Niger State

The Niger State Police Command has arrested a serving Mobile Police officer in connection with an fortified thievery incident that left a energy attendant d3ad in Kontagora Local Government Area.

The incident passed on April 15, 2026, at about 240 p.m., when a torture call was entered reporting an fortified thievery at Garun Mallam Filling Station, behind BCG Garage, Kontagora.

According to the security critic Zagazola Makama, two fortified suspects, one of whom was reportedly dressed in a mobile police livery and operating on a motorcycle, stormed the stuffing station and demanded plutocrat from the energy attendant after copping energy.

When the attendant, linked as 20- time-old Jibrin Inuwa of Garun Mallam, defied, one of the suspects shot him in the casket and fled with an undisclosed sum of plutocrat.

The victim was rushed to the General Hospital, Kontagora, where he was verified d3ad, and his body was latterly released to his family for burial according to Islamic solemnities.

Following the attack, police command brigades from ‘ A’ Division Kontagora, led by the Divisional Police Officer, traced the suspects to the Dadinkowa area behind a vigilante office, where they were engaged in a gun dogfight.

One of the suspects was ultimately overpowered, shot in the leg, disarmed, and arrested.

The suspect was latterly linked as a serving Mobile Police officer, Insp. Jido Ahmed, attached to 61 PMF Kontagora but presently on special duty in Agwara.

He was taken to the General Hospital, Kontagora, and latterly appertained to the Police Clinic in Minna for treatment.

An AK- 47 rifle with number 38262 and 12 rounds of 7.62 mm security were recovered from him.

Sources from the command said sweats are ongoing to seize the alternate fleeing suspect, while
disquisition into the case continues.