THE DEADLY ANINI’S TRUE STORIES

Indeed, Nigeria has recorded only two types of armed robbers: Lawrence Anini and Others.
No armed robber in the history of this Country has ever held the entire country to ransom as Anini.
In fact, his reign was so bloody that he was even discussed at the State Security Council meeting.
THIS IS HIS STORY:
Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini was born in a village about 20 miles from Benin City in present-day Edo State.
Anini was an only son of his Evbueisi-born mother, he had two sisters. His father died when he was still a young boy.
Anini was brought to Benin where he was admitted at the Oza Primary School but from a young age, he started manifesting the signs of truancy.
He struggled to finish his primary school then entered the Igiedumu Secondary School. He did not spend more than three years when he dropped out of school, preferring to be an apprentice at a local mechanic workshop. That was around 1976.
Anini later migrated to Benin, learned to drive and became a skilled taxi driver(Legend has it that he was the best driver created by the Almighty).
He became known in Benin motor parks as a man who could control the varied competing interests among motor park touts and operators.
He later dived into the criminal business in the city and soon became a driver and transporter for gangs, criminal godfathers and thieves.
Later on, he decided to create his own gang which included:
1. Monday Osunbor (The Deadliest Man That Ever Lived),
2. Friday Ofege,
3. Henry Ekponwan,
4. Eweka and
5. Alhaji zed zed or Zegezege who was never captured.
They started out as car hijackers, bus robbers and bank thieves.
Gradually, Anini and his gang extended their criminal acts all over Benin City.
THE DEADLY ANINI’S REIGN OF TERROR:
Following the sudden overthrow of the politicians in the early 1980s and banning of politics in 1984 by the Buhari regime, Anini discovered that armed robbery was far more lucrative and that was when he formed his gang…
In early 1986, two members of his gang were tried and prosecuted against an earlier under-the-table ‘agreement’ with the police to destroy evidence against the gang members.
The incident, and Anini’s view of police betrayal, is believed to have spurred retaliatory actions by Anini.
In August, 1986, Anini and his gang masterminded a fatal bank robbery in which a police officer and others were killed. That same month, two officers on duty were shot at a barricade while trying to stop Anini’s car. During a span of three months, he was known to have killed nine police officers.
In an operation in August 1986, the Anini team struck at First Bank, Sabongida-Ora, where they carted away N2,000(big money back then). He killed many people that day.
On September 6, 1986, the Anini gang snatched a Peugeot 504 car from Albert Otoe, the driver of an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Christopher Omeben. In snatching the car, they killed the driver and went to hide his corpse somewhere. It was not until three months later that the skeleton of the driver was spotted 16 kilometers away from Benin City, along the Benin-Agbor highway.
A day after this attack, Anini, operating in a Passat car believed to have been stolen, also effected the snatching of another Peugeot 504 car near the former FEDECO office, in Benin.
Two days after, the Anini men killed two policemen in Orhiowon Local Government of the state.
Still in that month, three different robbery attacks, all pointing to Anini’s involvement, took place. They include the murder of Frank Unoarumi, a former employee of the Nigerian Observer newspapers; the killing of Mrs. Remi Sobanjo, a chartered accountant, and the stealing of the Mercedes Benz car in Benin, of the Ughelli monarch, the Ovie.
Before September 1986 drew to a close, Anini struck at a gas station along Wire Road, Benin, where he stole a substantial part of the day’s sales. He shot the station’s attendant and gleefully started spraying his booty along the road for people to pick.
The height of Anini’s exploits, however, took place on October 1, 1986, the Independence Day when the state’s Commissioner of Police, Casmir Igbokwe was ambushed by the gang in Benin, and nearly yanked off his nose in a hail of bullets. The police boss survived the attacks with serious injuries. Earlier that day also, the Anini men had gunned down a police man within the city
“The Law”, as he was nicknamed, during an operation that went bad had to escape from the police by driving in reverse from Agbor (Delta State) to Benin City (Edo State). Indeed, he was a real life “James Bond-007”.
Also, on October 21 of same year, the Anini robbery gang terminated the life of a Benin-based medical doctor, A.O Emojeve when they gunned him down along Textile Mill Road, in Benin.
Not done, Anini and gang went and robbed the Agbor branch of African Continental Bank and carted away about N46, 000. A day after the operation, Anini, The Law, turned to a ‘Father Christmas’ as he strew wads of naira notes on the ground for free pick by market men and women at a village near Benin. Anini’s image thus loomed larger than life, he spearheaded a four-month reign of terror between August and December 1986.
Anini also reportedly wrote numerous letters to media houses using political tones of Robin Hood-like words, to describe his criminal acts.
Worried by the seeming elusiveness of Anini and his gang members, the military President, General Ibrahim Babangida then ordered a massive manhunt for the kingpin and his fellow robbers. The police thus went after them, combing every part of Bendel State(Now Delta and Edo States) where they were reportedly operating and living. The whole nation was gripped with fear of the robbers and their daredevil exploits.
However, Police manhunt failed to stop their activities; the more they were hunted, the more intensified their activities became. Some of the locals in the area even began to tell stories of their invincibility and for a while, it felt like they were never going to be caught.
However, at the conclusion of a meeting of the Armed Forces Ruling Council in October 1986, General Babangida turned to the Inspector- General of Police, Etim Inyang, and asked, ‘My friend, where is Anini?’.
At about this time, Nigerian newspapers and journals were also publishing various reports and editorials on the ‘Anini Challenge’, the ‘Anini Saga’, the ‘Anini Factor’, ‘Lawrence Anini – the Man, the Myth’, ‘Anini, Jack the Ripper’, and ‘Lawrence Anini: A Robin Hood in Bendel’. The Guardian asked, emphatically, in one of its reports: ‘Will they ever find Anini, “The Law”?’.
THE D-DAY: DAY OF RECKONING!!!
Finally, it took the courage of Superintendent of Police, Kayode Uanreroro to bring the Anini reign of terror to an end.
On December 3, 1986, Uanreroro caught Anini at No 26, Oyemwosa Street, opposite Iguodala Primary School, Benin City, in company with six women. Acting on a tip-off from the locals, the policeman went straight to the house where Anini was hiding and apprehended him with very little resistance.
Uanreroro led a crack 10-man team to the house, knocked on the door of the room, and Anini himself, clad in underpants, opened the door. “Where is Anini,” the police officer quickly enquired.
Dazed as he was caught off guard and having no escape route, Anini all the same tried to be smart. “Oh, Anini is under the bed in the inner room”. As he said it, he made some moves to walk past Uanreroro and his team. In the process, he shoved and head-butted the police officer but it was an exercise in futility.
Uanreroro promptly reached for his gun, stepped hard on Anini’s right toes and shot at his left ankle. Anini surged forward but the policemen took hold of him and put him in a sitting position.
They then pumped more bullets into his shot leg and almost severed the ankle from his entire leg. Already, anguished by the excruciating pains, the policemen asked him, “Are you Anini?” And he replied, “My brother, I won’t deceive you; I won’t tell you lie, I’m Anini.”
(AT THIS POINT, PLEASE TAKE A CHILLED BOTTLE OF WATER BEFORE YOU CONTINUE READING)
Anini was from there taken to the police command headquarters where the state’s Police Commissioner, Parry Osayande, was waiting. While in the police net, Anini who had poor command of English and could only communicate in pidgin, made a whole lot of revelations.
He disclosed, for instance that Osunbor, who had been arrested earlier, was his deputy, saying that Osunbor actually shot and wounded the former police boss of the state, Akagbosu
Anini was shot in the leg, transferred to a military hospital, and had one of his legs amputated. That was after Monday Osunbor was also captured. When Anini’s hideout was searched, police recovered assorted charms, including the one he usually wore around his waist during “operations”.
It was instructive that after Anini was captured and dispossessed of his charms, the man who terrorized a whole state and who was supposed to be fearless suddenly became remorseful, making confessions. This was against public expectation of a daredevil hoodlum who would remain defiant to the very end.
THE ROLE OF THE POLICE IN ANINI’S EXPLOITS
Shortly after the arrest of Anini and his gang(excluding Alhaji zed zed or Zegezege who was never captured, he may still be alive living a normal life till date), the dare-devil robbers began to cry and confess, revealing the roles played by key police officers and men, in the aiding and abetting of criminals in Bendel State and the entire country.
Anini particularly revealed that Iyamu, who was the most senior police officer shielding the robbers, would reveal police secrets to them and then, give them logistic supports such as arms, to carry out robbery operations.
He further revealed that Iyamu, after each operation, would join them in sharing the loot. It was further exposed how Iyamu planned to kill Christopher Omeben, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Intelligence and Investigation.
But Iyamu was later to be disappointed as the assailants dispatched to eliminate Omeben were only able to kill his driver, Otue, a sergeant. Iyamu, whom the robbers fondly referred to as ‘Baba’, reportedly had choice buildings in Benin City; being how he invested the loots he obtained from men of the underworld
THE END OF ANINI AND HIS GANG
Due to amputation of his leg, Anini was confined to a wheelchair throughout his trial.
Iyamu, on his part, denied ever knowing and collaborating with Anini, but Anini The Law furiously retorted, “You are a shameless liar!”
Anini had accused him before Justice James Omo-Agege in the High Court of Justice, off Sapele Road in Benin City.
Of the 10 police officers Anini implicated, five were convicted. The robbery suspects, including Iyamu, were sentenced to death.
But in passing his judgement, Justice Omo-Agege remarked, “Anini will forever be remembered in the history of crime in this country, but it would be of un-blessed memory. Few people if ever, would give the name to their children.” Their execution took place on March 29, 1987.

Exclusive! “Sholaye Jeremi Never Had Any Relationship With Linda Ikeji

If this is true, Jeremi is a flagabasted bloody nicompu ....(ee no dey dictionary oo, na my papa insult be that)

Exclusive! “Sholaye Jeremi Never Had Any Relationship With Linda Ikeji—Insiders ….How Blogger Blackmailed Him With Pregnancy
By Kemi Ashefon

   
Since Blogger Linda Ikeji has decided to go public with her purported affair with businessman, Solaye Jeremi, its obvious she has set the ball rolling.

Indeed, Linda, who bought a Bentley Mulsanne to celebrate her son’s arrival, confessed that she had to tell her story despite that family and friends advised her to the contrary.

With a confirmation on Friday morning that oil and gas billionaire, Sholaye Jeremi, is the father of her new baby, while addressing other issues surrounding their purported affair, Sholaye’s friends have decided to unveil what actually transpired between Linda and their friends.

“She was silly to have written all that because many have seen through her veneer of piety and pretence that she is just another desperate young lady who employed the oldest trick in the book— tie a potential suitor down with pregnancy, a source close to Sholaye revealed.

Still referring to Linda’s post in her blog entitled ‘Meet my son Jayce…and yes, Sholaye Jeremi is his dad,’ which has since gone viral, Sholaye’s friends said:

“Linda desperately wove an incoherent story of how she met Sholaye, in one breath saying he lived in a three bedroom apartment in Lekki and in another saying he was a billionaire further lending credence to the insinuations that she just wanted to be Mrs Jeremi by all means and crudely deployed old feminine wiles to achieve that but in vain.”

Tracing the genesis of her relationship with the Delta State-born billionaire to one night in December 2015 shortly after moving into her Banana Island mansion and how they hit it off almost immediately, Linda wrote, “I was definitely searching and I fell in love almost immediately and so we became an item…It was a whirlwind romance. He was the funniest and most romantic guy I’d met up until that point, so it was easy to fall in love and I truly believed the feeling was mutual.” She went on to describe how one thing led to the other and ‘she fell pregnant’ even though the relationship had gone south. Linda welcomed a son whom she named Jayce Jeremi three months ago.

“Predictably, Linda’s post is the trending topic on all social media platforms – an uproar borne out of the song and dance she made of her alleged celibacy. A lot of Nigerians have weighed in on the matter while the man in the middle of the storm, a private man who despite his billions and connections, remained anonymous until this blogger came into his life. Even now, he would rather keep quiet.

“What Jeremi and Linda had was just a fling – a typical case of boy meets girl, just that in this case, there was a very desperate party. Jeremi was just out to have fun and there was not supposed to be any commitment or emotional attachment. But Linda had her plans from the moment she set eyes on him.”

“When Linda came up with the pregnancy tale and stormed his house crying and begging, Jeremi had to be diplomatic about it because he didn’t want to create a scene.

“He told her point-blank how disappointed he was and that if she was trying to lure him into marriage, she had another think coming. That was when Linda began to plead and blackmail him. Initially, she said it was a taboo from her part of Imo State to have a child outside wedlock. Later, she said Jeremi should just meet her father to assure him that he is the owner to save them from shame and what the world would think of her after she had deceived a lot of young girls about her pious life.”

“I am privy to the fact that Linda has been begging him to just accept paternity of the baby. And she herself confessed that she knew he was not in love with her neither did they talk about marriage but since she was pregnant, abortion was out of the question because of her age. Now, Jeremi feels used and I don’t know how the matter can ever be settled because what they had was not supposed to lead to this – it was more like a one night stand. So, all the emotion she is whipping up is to sway her gullible followers,” the source said.

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What are your thoughts on this (Sex Dolls) ..

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Each of these sex dolls costs N900,000 each and a hotel in Germany has already started a sex doll brothel where you have sex with them at the rate of N40,000 per hour. Like seriously?? 40k for one hour.. Massive production already going on.

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Please be aware of Snake in the WC

Please be aware of Snake in the WC and on floor of our toilet and again read and follow the instructions.

Pls note the following and take the precautionary measures suggested : MOST reptiles would find it difficult to jump or enter into the WC from within. The easiest inlet is always from the concrete chambers at the back of the house through which sewage pipes get connected and through cracks, under the doors and crevices.

SNAKE LIKES TO HIDE INSIDE WC CHAMBERS TO COOL IT'S BODY WITH THE FLUSHING WATER DURING HOT WEATHER , AND FOR SAFETY. SOMETIMES WHEN IN SEARCH OF FOOD, IT MAY PURSUE RATS/RODENTS INTO THE CHAMBERS AT THE BACK OF YOUR HOUSE OR EVEN THE SOAK-AWAY PIT. IT STAYS THERE AFTER KILLING/SWALLOWING THE RATS AND TURN THE PLACE TO AN ABODE. FINALLY IT CRAWS THROUGH THE CONNECTING PVC PIPES INTO THE WC FOR MORE ADVENTURES AND FOOD INSIDE THE HOUSE. ANY OBJECT ON THE WC MAY LOOK LIKE FOOD AND COULD BE A VICTIM.

THIS IS WHY YOU'RE ADVISED TO NOTE THE FOLLOWING AND TAKE THE FOLLOWING PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES SUGGESTED:

1. ALWAYS CHECK ANY TOILET WC THOROUGHLY BEFORE YOU SIT ON IT.

2. DON’T USE TOILET IN THE DARK

PUBLIC TOILET IS DANGEROUS TO USE ANYHOW. IF YOU MUST USE IT, DON’T SIT DIRECTLY ON IT, LIFT UP YOUR BUTTOCK SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE BOWL AND BE WATCHFUL.

3. YOU CAN REGULARLY (EVERY 6 MONTHS) POUR SMALL KEROSENE, DIESEL OR A CUP OF SALT INTO THE WC BOWL AND FLUSH. IT IS POISON TO REPTILES EVEN THE ODOR WILL KEEP-OFF ANY REPTILES FOR A LONG TIME.

PLEASE BE SECURITY CONSCIOUS ALWAYS. THANKS.

ENGR. FEMI was almost a victim of one. Being observant (God) saved him. He almost sat on the WC is office when he discovered a movement below. We eventually killed the 6ft long snake. It was then that I heard stories of 4 deaths resulting from snake bites in the toilets. Since then I have continued to spread the warning, at least to more than two thousand people.

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See The Photos Of The Married Nigerian Woman Who has 4 Kids And Her Lover Who Died Mysteriouslyside car

See The Photos Of The Married Nigerian Woman Who has 4 Kids And Her Lover Who Died Mysteriously While Having Sex Inside Their Car On Sunday Morning, The Man Was Not Only Younger Than Her But He Was Their Rich Landlords Son

Fighting police officers mistakenly shoot newly wed man in Nigeria (photos

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Fighting police officers mistakenly shoot newly wed man in Nigeria (photos)

A newly married man was hit by a stray bullet while two policemen were fighting with their guns on the streets of Abuja.

What happens when the people who are supposed to protect your lives become the ones who end up putting you in harm's way?

According to reports, a young man identified as Kingsley was struck by a stray bullet in Abuja, barely five weeks after his wedding.

Kingsley was reportedly trying to shop somewhere in Wuse 2, Abuja, when a bullet from the gun of policemen who were fighting hit him in the leg.

Following the incident, Kingsley who was rushed to the hospital is in danger of losing the leg as the bullet reportedly shattered the leg and doctors suggest an amputation to prevent further complications.

Facebook user, Huldah Lynns-Ihetuge, shared the story saying:

“What was this young boy’s offence? Kingsley just got married barely 5 weeks ago!!!! He just went to Exclusive stores Wuse 2 Abuja to shop on the 18th of October, where two policemen fighting with their guns shot him on the leg. One of the police men is Akpabio Daniel of Maitama division. Now the doctors are insisting the leg must be amputated

Please let this matter get to the IG ASAP, this poor boy’s leg must not be amputated and those police men must not go free."

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Why I want Igbos to contest for presidency in 2019 – Obasanjo

Former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has urged Igbos to contest for the presidency in 2019.
He stated this when he hosted the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ogun State chapter, at his Abeokuta Hilltop residence on Tuesday.
Obasanjo said he was in support of the return to regional governance, as it will solve the problem of marginalization.
He also said the people of Ogun West senatorial district, should be allowed to produce the next Governor.
“Irrespective of the thinking of the people ahead of 2019, I personally think that South-East should have a go at the Presidency too.
“The same is happening here. If Ijebu and Egba have produced the governor, it is only fair and just to allow the Yewa or Ogun West to also produce governor. Or else, one day, they will also stand up and take up arms against this injustice against them. That is my personally position on this,” Obasanjo said.
Speaking on the crisis in Southern Kaduna, the former president said: “My findings so far show that everyone is talking from the position of strength. People are not talking from knowledge of what they know and this is not helping. We must be able to dump all our sentiments to overcome the challenges.
“Just like other cases of injustice around us, we need peace; it is only peace with justice that can solve all these crises. Genuine peace is what everyone is craving for and this can only come when there is justice.”

Second thought about Charcoal : To use,or not to use?

The rise in prices of cooking gas and kerosene is creating a demand for charcoal, whose price is likewise escalating – a development that translates to an increase in the felling of trees, a raw material for charcoal

The negativity in the use of charcoal surmounts the temporal alternative it serves in cooking. Felling of trees for production of charcoal is usually carried out without recourse to planting many more trees to replace the felled ones. This practice leads to deforestation which is a clear and present danger in the face of ever increasing risks of climate change.
For the past three weeks, cooking gas, which has been embraced by many in Benue State as a substitute to kerosene, has become a scarce commodity. The scarcity is said to be caused by the halt in production of gas in the country, thereby leaving only one avenue for its procurement through importation, a situation that looks to have skyrocketed the price. A 12.5 kg of cooking gas which went for N4,000 jumped to N5,000. Meanwhile, kerosene too went for as high as N270-N300 at filling stations and N350-N400 per litre at black market selling points.
To this end, many homes turned their focus to charcoal for cooking, which also shot the price up from N1,200 to N1,800 then to N2,000 per bag.
Away from the pricing mechanism which is hard to control, especially for cooking gas as it was recently confirmed by Secretary Petroleum Products Monitoring and Price Regulating Committee, Benue State, Mr Titus Dyaaiyol, in a monitored interview on radio not to be within their purview, there is need for the price of gas to reduce and be within reach of the common man. Invariably, if the price of cooking gas becomes affordable, more people will use it and desist from the use of charcoal with its harmful antecedents.
Charcoal is generally known as a dark or black form of carbon obtained by usually heating wood in an enclosed space without air. This charcoal is thereby used as fuel in cooking.
Not too long ago, many states such as Benue had forest reserves overlooked by the government, communities or certain families but all that is now in the past as scores of forest trees have been felled without replacement. In place of most forests in these areas are farmlands and homes.
In this regard, the expansionist need superseded the need of these forest owners in reserving the forests. They saw more gain in either felling the trees for timber, charcoal or simply expanding farmlands or homesteads.
As earlier stated, the rising cost of petroleum products such as kerosene and gas as well as the high cost of operating electric cookers obviously gave rise to Nigerians embracing the use of charcoal in locally made charcoal stoves popularly known as “Abacha Stove” since the mid-90s. These stoves have a hollow base where charcoal is stoked and lit. It usually takes a while for the embers to properly light but, once they do, they burn steadily. This process is said to cook food faster and better. Whether the aforementioned assertion is true or not, the use of charcoal in the long run attracts many environmental ills.
Charcoal making process is considerably easier and cheaper with little investment, hence, the rush by the private sector and locals into its production from the available resource in the environment. Most definitely, the cost of using charcoal may augur well for the community but the overall cost in terms of environmental damage cannot be overemphasised. Although, its use plays a major role in our economy and energy sector as an ideal fuel, charcoal is nevertheless a form of “dirty fuel.”
Suffice it to stress that charcoal is an in-efficient fuel to produce, and is un-clean. In comparison, charcoal stoves which are usually out-door used, in as much as they are more efficient to use than firewood stoves, still lag behind kerosene, electric and gas stoves.
In essence, the high use of charcoal according to experts results in the high consumption of wood which in turn results to more emission of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and CO (carbon monoxide). The question is how to produce sustainable basis charcoal without causing deforestation and create a neural carbon cycle. There is no gain saying the fact that deforestation comes with loss of wildlife and other environmental degradation ills such as desertification.
This booming charcoal business which is fueled by the poverty in the rural areas and sustained by the exploding population among the urban middle class and poor who find it cheaper to use charcoal in place of soaring kerosene and cooking gas price is not helping matters with climate change adaptation in Benue State. This brings to the fore the need for the National Environmental Standards Regulatory and Enforcement Agency (NESREA) under the Federal Ministry of Environment to step up its regulatory role of protecting forest resources as stipulated by the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife and Flora (CITES). The Benue State Government too needs to step up its regulating of felling of trees and encourage aggressive tree planting to curb desertification effects.
If mitigating moves are not put in place by appropriate authorities in checking the charcoal business, our forests would soon disappear and do away with the traditional role of trees providing living things oxygen in the course of photosynthesis. More so, this anomaly coupled with other human activities is responsible for far reaching impacts of global warming and climate change.
To buttress this point, experts assert that only five percent of the country’s forest resource is standing, as those felled have not been replenished, as it ought to. Little wonder, governments usually organise tree planting events year in, year out but do not put properly managed and supervised machinery in place to sustain the growth of the trees.
By and large, as a matter of urgency, the introduction of clean and efficient cooking stoves among the Nigerian populace, especially the local ones, which will cut down about 80 percent of the use of fuel, will spur the country on the way to sustainable development and a cleaner and more environment friendly cooking practice.

Police recover 19 cars, SUVs from ex-IGArase

Police recover 19 cars, SUVs from ex-IGArase

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered an investigation into the purchase and distribution of vehicles by his predecessors.

It was gathered that the probe was informed by the discovery that retiring officers, including former  IGs and Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, were in the habit of appropriating police vehicles for their personal use.

Findings by Punch on Sunday show that the probe, which is being handled by the Special Investigation Panel, had identified and recovered 19 police vehicles from former IG, Solomon Arase.

Some of the vehicles include assorted sedans, Sports Utility Vehicles and pick-up vans.The vehicles, it was learnt, were apart from the four vehicles he was entitled to take awaywith him on retirement.

A senior officer, who is familiar with the investigation, said the SIP was still working torecover five additional vehicles from the former police boss.

It was learnt that the SIP, headed by Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Ali Amodu, (retd.), had also recovered a number of police vehicles from other retired DIGs.

The recovered vehicles were said to have been distributed to newly promoted Commissioners of Police and AIGs.