According to sources, the incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, as the attackers launched deadly assaults on individuals they identified as violators of the sit-at-home order.
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This was coming as tension and protest spread across the 23 local government areas of the state following the expiration of the three-year tenure of the elected Chairmen of LGAs and ward councillors.
The House of Representatives has begun investigation into the alleged gruesome murder of some vigilante members in Eke, Udi Council Area of Enugu State by the operatives of the Nigerian Army.
It was gathered that members of the vigilance group guarding the Timber shed market at the Federal Housing Estate in Abuja had wanted to arrest some residents wandering around the market in the early hours of Saturday.
The lawmaker is an indigene of Isuofia, the same community as Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State.
The battle erupted late Tuesday in Kanya, a village in Danko-Wasagu district, just a day after dozens of members of a self-defence militia were killed in the same area.
DSP Bright Edafe, the police spokesman in the state said in a statement issued on Sunday in Warri that operatives, in collaboration with local vigilantes arrested the suspect on Dec. 2.
The gunmen had on Tuesday, according to sources, contacted the authorities of the farm settlement and demanded N50 million before they could let the four victims off the hook.
According to a statement by the acting Police Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Edafe Bright, the arrest followed series of intelligence gathering.
Suspected herdsmen on Tuesday night around 7:30pm stormed the road after Ajenbandele village in Ibokun Council Area of Osun State and abducted an unknown number of travellers.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday in Awka.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Wasiu Abiodun, confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Minna on Tuesday.
Alhaji Garba Wakili, an official of the group, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Agwara on Sunday.
Onjefu, who resides in Icho village in Otukpo LGA of Benue State, is charged with rape.
The two fulani youths were killed by vigilante members of Runtuwo Alhaji Tukur village in the presence of the deceased’s father while on their way home from a village market on August 14 at about 5pm.
The witnesses said it was the quick intervention of private companies who brought their fire fighting vehicles that prevented the fire from razing down the entire filling station
However, while the police is claiming credit for the rescue of the kidnapped persons, including a lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Dr. Femi Omisore, a vigilante group in the state has said it rescued the victims
Another witness, who pleaded anonymity, described the incident as “a breakthrough” considering the rampant cases of cattle rustling in the area
Geza said Bala overheard the suspects planning an attack and arguing over the sharing of booty from a recent robbery in Birnin Kebbi