Nigeria Police has paraded five suspects for allegedly killing an officer of the Nigeria Customs Services.

The officer, Assistant Superintendent of Customs Aliyu Dayyab was killed in Tincan area of Lagos while he was on his way from work.

Speaking, the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood said sequel to the report of the incident and a cordoned operation arrived out by the IGP’s Intelligence Response Team and Technical Intelligence Unit on the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, to fish out the killers of the Custom officer”

Moshood, Chief Superintendent of Police said the suspects were trailed and arrested between 28 December 2016 and 18 January 2017.

The suspects arrested are The gang leader; Lucky Williams, Akinloye Samuel, Abraham Lot, Bolaji Taiwo& and Lanre Humphrey.

An Infinix phone belonging to the deceased was recovered from the suspect.

The police said Humphrey Aimudo organised the gang that killed the Customs’ officer.

According to the police “The suspects confessed to have information that the Customs’ officer had in his possession #4million and some dollars.

“This prompted the attack and killing of the officer after they snatched the bag containing some money from the officer”.

The police said the suspects volunteered confessional statements admitting the various roles they played in the commission of the crime.

The Force also noted that they would be charged to court for murder, armed robbery and conspiracy.

On his part, one of the suspects, Williams said: “They called me that there is a job in the Port Authority. We went but the job was not well done, so we went back the next day. The told us that the officer was always going home with money every day and someone who works at the gate drew my attention to it.

Also speaking, Humphrey who claimed to be a former clearing agent at the port said: “someone who works at the gate told me that an officer was always carrying money home and that he changes it to dollars.

I know the officer and to avoid us being identified, we decided to look for an outsider to do the job”.

The suspects said they got #50,000 each from the operation.