A CLUE that might help the Nigeria Police to track down killers of South South coordinator of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Marshall Harry, emerged  on this day in March 2003 in Abuja as a young man gunned down by the police allegedly confessed to have been part of the five-man gang that killed the ANPP stalwart.
A patrol team from Garki Division in the Federal Capital Territory intercepted an eight-man gang during a robbery at a residence in Apo Village, Abuja, at about 4am.
In the gun battle that ensued, four of the robbers were gunned down while the other four escaped with bullet wounds.
One of the four people gunned down by the police, whose identity the police did not disclose, confessed shortly before his death that he was among the gang that stormed Harry’s home and killed him.
He was also said to have told the police those who sponsored the gang.
Reports said the police, during a later search in hospitals around Garki and Apo, stumbled on one of those who escaped with gunshot wounds in a private hospital but he jumped through a window and escaped. Meanwhile, the medical doctor and the girlfriend of the suspect, who took him to the hospital, have been arrested.
The force public relations officer, Chris Olam, a deputy commissioner of police, confirmed the incident, saying the police were already acting on the information extracted from the robbers.
Harry was murdered in his Abuja residence about three weeks earlier by a gang of five assassins.
Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, shortly after, said that the police had made substantial inroads in the bid to track down the killers.

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