
POLICE INVESTIGATE REPORTED ATTACK ON SENATOR NATASHA’S FAMILY RESIDENCE
The Kogi State Police Command has started investigating the reported gunmen attack on Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s family residence.
The police received a distress call about the attack on the senator’s home in Obeiba-Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area.
According to a statement by Police Public Relations Officer SP William Aya Ovye, the investigation began after an aide to Senator Natasha, Yakubu Ovanja, sent a distress call on Wednesday.
The information about the attack was reported to the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Okehi Division.
fThestatement said: “At about 0100hrs some hoodlums numbering about three armed with cutlasses invaded the family house of the said Senator and damaged some front window glasses.
“Immediately the information was received by the DPO, he mobilized his men in for on the spot assessment where he met a young man name Michael Akpoti in the house who narrated how the hoodlums used cutlasses to damaged the said building while trying to gain access into the house before he raised alarm which made the hoodlums to flee
”In view of the above, the Commissioner of Police has directed the deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of Criminal Investigation Department to commence immediate and discrete investigation into the alleged attack to ascertain its cause with the view to apprehending the perpetrators and bringing them to justice.”
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