The Benue State Police command has said
that the body of one of the officers it declared missing after an attack
by Fulani herdsmen on Saturday night at the Azege-Ayilamo community in the Logo
Local Government Area of the state had been found.
In a statement by the command spokesman, ASP,
Moses Yamu, made available to our correspondent in Makurdi on Monday, the
command lamented the death of one of the missing policemen.
Yamu stated, “He was found brutally slaughtered,
with both eyes and ears as well as nose removed. We pray that God Almighty
grants him eternal rest.”
The command said that it remained committed to
its statutory and daunting obligation of ensuring security of lives and
property in the state.
The command had stated on Saturday that suspected
herdsmen had ambushed a patrol team at Azege Ayilamo in the Logo council area
with four of its men missing.
Two of the missing policemen were said to have
been rescued on Sunday.
In a related development, suspected Fulani
herdsmen, on Monday, shot and killed two officers of the Nigeria Security and
Civil Defence Corps, who were on special operations at the Guma Local
Government Area of Benue State.
The incident, according to a security source,
occurred at Awamye near Kasseyo village in the local government area.
The victims were said to have been ambushed by
suspected Fulani herdsmen at a stream in Awanye.
The source said, “Security men within that
community have been going to the stream to bath and what they used to do is
while some are taking their bath others will be on alert keeping watch.
“So, the victims were bathing while two other
colleagues were keeping vigil when suddenly suspected herdsmen who had laid an
ambush attacked them and killed the two, while others escaped.”
When contacted, the state command PRO, Peter
Adakole, confirmed the incident.
He added that the command had dispatched a team
to the area to get accurate information about what led to the death of the men.
The PRO said, “I can confirm to you that we lost
two men but we do not have details of what happened, the command had dispatched
a team to the place, the moment the team comes back I will get back to
you.”
He did not get back to our correspondent as of
the time of filling this report. LR News
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