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, said this in a statement on
Wednesday.
Kolawole
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.
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