The spokesman of the Ebonyi State Police Command, Joshua Ukandu, confirmed this to newsmen on Monday.
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According to information available to the media, the attack on the checkpoint occurred in the early hours of Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria is reporting that the perpetrators of the crime rode on motorcycles when they opened.
It was learnt that one of those killed during the attack, which occurred on Saturday, was the state Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Sylvanus Namang.
The Police Command confirmed the development through its spokesperson, Ejire Adeyemi-Tohun, on Thursday.
The incident was said to have happened between Oke-Ako and Ipao-Ekiti in Ajoni Local Government Area of the state.
It was gathered that the victims were mostly women and children who had run to the house of a community leader in the area on Tuesday night.
A friend of the commercial cyclist, Saphianu Musa, reported the development at the police station.
It was gathered that the three-man gang shot the chief in his head, at close quarters.
The Chairman of the Transition Committee of Bokkos LGa, Monday Kassah, confirmed the attack to newsmen on Friday.
Bage was picked Monday night, with his wife, Listu.
The gunmen, according to locals in the area, invaded the community around 2am and took away 21 members of the community.
According to The Sun, the gunmen killed four soldiers and two drivers on escort duties for the company.
Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this in Abuja on Friday.
Oyekannmi added that the incident occurred around 3.30am
It was gathered that the suspected killer squad instantly opened fire on the security personnel.
The Correspondent had boarded their vehicle at the Federal Secretariat on the way home after an assignment.
Egaga, who is a professor at the Department of Special Education in the institution was said to have been abducted at his residence.
The chairman, Nasiru Ahmed Kiyawa, told BBC Hausa that the gunmen stormed his house after Isha’i prayer on Friday night, chasing away people outside before entering.
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wukari, Taraba State, Most Rev. Mark Nzukwein, on Sunday confirmed the abduction of a priest of St. Ann’s Parish in Sarkin Kudu, Ibi Local Government Area of Taraba State.
Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide has hailed Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State for offering amnesty to all the unknown gunmen hiding in the bush as a way of curtailing insecurity in the state.