No less than 30 individuals confined at the Kogi State office of the Directorate of State Service were liberated on Friday night when it was assaulted by shooters associated to be individuals with the Boko Haram organization.
This was as four individuals, including an against mob policeman, were supposedly slaughtered in the assault by the attacking guerillas.
The aggressors were said to have promptly made for the cell of the DSS office situated along Hassan Katsina Road, Lokoja, and discharged all suspects kept there in the wake of getting access.
Our reporter accumulated that around 9.45pm on Friday, the shooters with advanced weapons attacked the DSS office.
A source who talked on state of secrecy said the intensely equipped men that raged the DSS office seemed to have overpowered the DSS authorities present, inciting a Deputy Director of the office, whose name is yet to be found out, to rapidly put a pain call to the police at around 10:40pm.
It was assembled that consolidated watch groups of warriors and policemen were later drafted to the spot and they drew in the trespassers in a weapon duel for more than seven hours.
The source said the security agents later overwhelmed the aggressors and some of them (intruders) fled into the shrubbery.
He included that toward the shootout's end, the assemblages of a policeman and three of the assailants were found.
The source further said two of the aggressors fled to Otokiti Housing Estate and constrained themselves into one of the pads possessed by a lady.
It was accumulated that the lady immediately welcomed officers who reacted quickly, captured and took them away.
The Kogi State Police Commissioner, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, affirmed the assault to writers in Lokoja.
He said at in regards to 9:45pm on Friday, criminal components attacked the DSS office in Lokoja.
As indicated by him, the brief reaction of the police summon prompted the passing of three of the aggressors, while toward the operation's end the charge lost a policeman.
He said he couldn't affirm regardless of whether the trespassers succeeded in entering the DSS office.
Ojukwu said, "We are as yet researching and we can't say much for the present until we have the capacity to lay our hands on the suspects.
"We are working steadily with other security specialists in the state to guarantee that we get to the main driver of the assault."
In the mean time the DSS has sent agents from its Abuja central command to Lokoja, Kogi State to chase down Boko Haram suspects that got away from its confinement office in the state.
Sources told our reporter that the DSS was yet to have a distinct number of the got away suspects, including that the Kogi State directorate was presently presenting the full rundown of the suspects to the DSS base camp in Abuja.
A DSS source said, "The administration is yet to determine the precise number of fear suspects that evaded amid the assault, however the home office is expecting a full preparation on the episode, including the quantity of got away associates, number with dead or injured faculty, number of re-captured associates and a definite clarification with how the office was assaulted.
"A test into the security break has been started by the administration base camp and a squad has been dispatched to the state to help in re-capturing the escaping guerillas; we expect recover of a suspects' percentage inside of 24 hours."
Source: PunchNg
