The residents, at a town hall meeting with a high powered Assessment Committee set up by Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba, said their actions had delayed the development of their area.
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Misal said residents of the area told the police that they heard Adamu screaming on Tuesday night, shortly before he was found dead.
The Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. John Agim, announced the figure, while giving update on the just- concluded exercise which also covered Nasarawa, Niger and Kogi states.
Adetoye who is on transfer to the Lagos State Command also said 69 seizures with Duty Paid Value worth over N124 million were made within the period.
The killings took place between Wednesday and Thursday
Idris, who announced the measures during a visit to Governor Darius Ishaku in Jalingo, said that an aircraft had been deployed for constant aerial surveillance while more mobile units had been deployed to flash points.
The Force spokesman, ACP Jimoh Moshood, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said anti-robbery equipment and 10 crew members were also deployed to the state.
The army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen Texas Chukwu, explained in a statement on Monday in Abuja, that the extension became necessary to further consolidate on the gains achieved so far in the state.
According to Lt. Col. Sani Adamu, the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, 30 cows were also recovered from the suspects who were paraded at Mayo-Ndaga, near Gembu, in Sardauna Local Government Area.
The group made the allegation on Sunday in Abuja at a press conference addressed by its National President, Prince Raymond Enero, in response to the reported call by Danjuma on citizens of Taraba State to defend themselves against armed bandits.
Rev. Peter Gambo, who was travelling with the late chairman, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the incident happened when they parked to buy some drugs in Zing town on their way to Yola.
The state’s Head of Civil Service, Simon Angyo, disclosed this at the state accountability programme ‘Face the Press’, organised by the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Darius Ishaku on Public Affairs.
Akinremi told newsmen that the command’s anti-kidnapping team had, on February 22, arrested Jibrin Buba, Suleiman Ahmadu, Haruna Abdullahi and Usman Mohammed for threatening to abduct one Abdullahi Ahmadu.
The medical outreach, according to Dr. Olayinka Ojo, Commanding Officer, 23 Brigade Medical Centre, Yola is part of the efforts by the Nigerian Army to strengthen the civil-military relations in their current operational base in Wukari.
Buratai, in a remark at a security stakeholders’s meeting on Thursday in Wukari, Taraba State, said restoring moral values to youths was crucial to addressing crime and increasing rate of insecurity in the society.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the kidnappers, who were about nine in number, gained access to the traditional ruler’s palace and went into his bedroom, but the district head resisted the attempt to abduct him and engaged them in a fight.
Samson Ada, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, disclosed this at an interactive session with journalists on Wednesday in Jalingo.
Abbani Imam, National Emergency Management Agency head of operations in charge of Adamawa and Taraba, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola on Tuesday.
A statement by Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, the Director of Army Public Relations, said the army and other security agencies were already working assiduously to identify and arrest all those involved in those acts “regardless of their disposition in the society, including government functionaries”.
The PDP also expressed disbelief at the President’s dismissal of public criticism over his delay in visiting the troubled areas as expecting him “to always go out to the field to make noise”.