Insecurity: Police destroy bandit camps along Makurdi–Yelewata, Naka roads in Benue

By Peter Duru, Makurdi

The Benue State Police Command says it has dismantled respective bandit camps operating on the Makurdi–Yelewata and Makurdi–Naka roads.

Commissioner of Police, Dr. Ifeanyi Emenari, disclosed this successful Makurdi erstwhile members of the Forum of Investigative Journalists, led by Tamenor Kwaghzer, paid him a courtesy sojourn astatine the Command Headquarters.

He said the beingness of the camps had emboldened criminals to motorboat attacks connected motorists and residents, but their demolition had reduced convulsive incidents successful the area.

According to him, the clearance operations brought a crisp diminution successful cases of robbery and killings on the highways, though occasional attacks were inactive being recorded from suspected herders who sneak into the state.

“He urged residents to supply credible accusation to information agencies to assistance flush retired what helium described arsenic “enemies of the people.”

On the caller incidental on the Makurdi–Naka road, Emenari said it was an attempted equipped robbery, not kidnapping arsenic earlier speculated. He blamed the mediocre authorities of the roadworthy for aiding transgression enactment but noted that constabulary operatives repelled the onslaught during a regular clearance patrol.

Speaking connected the sidesplitting of 4 persons successful Jato Aka, Kwande Local Government Area (LGA), the Commissioner explained that stray bullets from an speech betwixt soldiers and hoodlums mightiness person caused the deaths. He said investigations were ongoing portion much unit had been deployed to the area.

The Commissioner stressed that “crime cannot beryllium wholly eliminated, but with practice betwixt residents and information agencies, bid could beryllium sustained.

“And arsenic the Ember months approach, we person prioritized the extortion of lives and property. It is amended to unrecorded successful bid than successful crisis,” helium said.

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