The Police Commissioner in Niger, Mr Ogundele Ayodeji, says a preliminary investigation has revealed an in-house conspiracy to the robbery attack at the Emir of Minna Palace on Tuesday.
The statement was made during a chat on the sideline of the G-7 states Technical Committee Meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.He recalled that the hoodlums attacked the palace on Tuesday afternoon, killed two palace guards and carted away N3.3 million.
He said that ongoing investigation suggests that the robbers connived with someone in the palace to perpetrate the crime.The commissioner said that his men were already trailing the criminals, and expressed confidence that they would be caught sooner or later.“I was called around 3:00 p.m. while in Abuja for the G-7 states Technical Committee Meeting, that there was a robbery attack in front of the palace of the Emir of Minna.“From the update I got, the hoodlums tailed the cashier of the emirate up to the gate of the palace.” 
As the cashier was about to enter the palace, the criminals shot sporadically, and in the process, killed two of the palace guards and carted away with N3.3 million.“From the reports I have received, there seems to be an in-house conspiracy to the crime, and I am confident that the criminals will be caught sooner or later,” he said.
The G-7 is made up of the FCT, Benue, Kaduna, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau States.The G-7 was initiated in 2007 by the then Minister of the FCT, Dr Modibbo Umar, to deal with issues of criminality that were plaguing the FCT and its contiguous states.
