Robber crushed to death on Lokoja-Abuja highway

It was a bad day for the dare-devil robbers unleashing hell on commuters on the Lokoja-Abuja highway as one of the suspected members was crushed to death by a speeding vehicle recently as contained in a report by Kogireports.com.

According to the report, a suspected armed robber met his waterloo on Tuesday morning after an unmarked vehicle crushed him to death near Chikara village, while attempting to flag down vehicles on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

A witness said the incident happened around 6:12 a.m., amid rain fall, when a member of a robbery gang, emerged from a bush with sophisticated weapon at a sharp bend to flag down vehicles.

He said as the robber appeared on the center of the road, an unmarked over-speeding vehicle coming from Abaji axis crushed him to death.

“As he was trying to open fire on some of the incoming vehicles, one of them crushed him and he died instantly and the driver zoomed off, ‘’ he narrated.

He said officials of the Abaji unit command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), later came to the scene to remove the corpse of the robbery suspect, who had charms all over his body.

Our reporter gathered that the robbers had positioned themselves close to the road inside the bush apparently to attack the motorists one after the other.

An effort to get the reaction of the Abaji unit commander of the FRSC, Moses Audu, were not successful, but an official of the command, said his men, who were on patrol, rushed to the scene to

evacuate the corpse of a man, suspected to be armed robber, that was crushed to death by an unmarked vehicle.

“I suspect that the man would be an armed robber because different charms were found all over his dead body with three different shirts on him when they went to remove the corpse,’’ he said.

The FRSC official said the corpse has been handed over to the environmental officials at the Area Council for burial.

When contacted, Abaji Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr. Ogungbemi Igbekele, said the scene where the incident happened was not in his jurisdiction, saying it falls within Chikara police division in Kogi State.

It would be recalled that a gang of armed robbers, early last month, opened fire on a bus, in which three under graduate university students sustained bullets wounds at th