The Special Military Task Force,
Operation Save Haven, on Wednesday paraded three suspects (pictured above) in
connection with the latest killings in Plateau State that sparked national
outrage.
The three men were said to
have been captured at Gashish District in the Barkin Ladi Local Government Area
of the state.
The suspects were paraded
in Jos, alongside 14 others who were arrested over the killings in which people
described as herdsmen were believed to have massacred over 200 people, mainly
locals and farmers, between Saturday night of June 23 and Sunday dawn of June
24.
NAN reports that 11
villages in the Barkin Ladi Local Government Area and its environs were
affected in the onslaught in which property worth billions of naira were also
destroyed.
Parading the suspects, the
spokesman of the STF, Major Umar Adams, told reporters that the suspects were
arrested while they had in their possession sophisticated rifles.
Adams said that two of the
suspects were Fulani herdsmen and one Berom, a minority ethnic group in
Plateau.
Adams said the suspects
were arrested in the course of the attacks.
“We all know that some days
back, some villages in Barkin Ladi were attacked and these three suspects were
arrested in connection with that.
“As our men were repelling
the attacks in those areas, we arrested these suspects with four rifles, three
locally made guns and one AK-47.
“The other 14 people were
arrested in connection with civil unrest recently experienced in the state.”
Adams said that the
suspects were still being investigated and that more arrests would be made.
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