Rivers State Police Command has killed a notorious gang leader, Linus
Lebari (a.k.a. Devil) from Teka Sogho in Khana Council of the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed that
the hoodlum was the leader of the kidnapping gang responsible for all the
attacks on the Ogoni axis of the East-West Road.
He added that the gang had killed over 30 people in Khana and Gokana
councils after collecting ransom.
Omoni said, the hoodlum was killed last night by men of Bori Police Station
led by the Division Police Officer (DPO) in a coordinated operation by
‘Operation Sting’ after being trailed to their hide-out in a forest at Okwale.
He said, “The hoodlums, on noticing irregular movements around their camp,
started shooting sporadically. But in return fire from the police, one of them
was fatally wounded. He was later identified to be Linus Lebari, the gang
leader.
The police spokesman said that efforts were on to arrest other gangsters
who fled with gunshot wounds.
The Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, he noted, has reassured the
public that the onslaught against armed banditry in the state was raging and
would not cease until all criminal elements in the state were wiped out.
