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This in compliance with the Presidential directive to fish out and bring to justice the perpetrators of the heinous killings of 23 innocent residents of Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State,  on 1 January 2018 by the notorious Don Waney criminal cult group.

 

In a statement by the 6 division public relations officer, Col Aminu Iliyasu stated that after a painstaking effort by the security agencies, Austin was traced to his hide out at a location along new Sapele road, Obiaruku in Ukwani Local Government Area (LGA) in Delta state on 14 February, 2018.

 

Reliable information also has it that he and other gang members still at large were already making plans to attack security agencies locations, churches and schools within Rivers state as a reprisal to the clamp down on their remnants now at large.

 

Agulegbu was however, shot in an encounter with the security operatives and died before reaching the hospital. His body has been brought to Port Harcourt and handed over to the Rivers State Police Command.