The Nigeria Police Force says
it has arrested five suspects for their role in the Enugu attack by suspected
herdsmen which led to the death of about 20 persons in the Ukpabi Nimbo area of
the state on April 25, 2016. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi
Kolawole in a statement revealed that the police also recovered a phone from
the herdsmen which had a video recording of the massacre.
She said, “The Nigeria Police
Force in its renewed determination to rid the society of crimes and all forms
of criminality, has arrested five of the suspects involved in the midnight raid
on Nimbo community in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State on
April 25, 2016 as operatives of the IGP’s Intelligence Response Team based on
credible technical intelligence swooped on them.
“The IGP’s IRT, based on the
intelligence gathered on the attack, arrested the following suspects viz:
Mohammed Zurai, Ciroma Musa, Sale Adamu, Suleiman Laute and Haruna Laute, and
recovered one Gionee L88 mobile phone with a memory card containing the video
recording of the massacre in the community.”
The arrest comes three weeks
after the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, Mr. Nwodibo Ekechukwu,
was removed over the attack on the community by suspected herdsmen. It was learnt that scores of
armed cattle breeders, reportedly numbering more than 100, stormed the sleepy
community in the early hours of the day.The police high command was
said to have been angry due to the fact that the villagers had informed the
state police command about the impending attack but the formation did nothing
to forestall the killings. Enugu State has experienced
significant bloodshed from attacks by Fulani herdsmen and communal violence.
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