• South-West leaders visit Benue victims
• Youth body condemns Plateau killings
The Governor Ahmed Ododo-led administration has intensified its crackdown on banditry and other criminal activities in Kogi State.
In a major operation, the combined security forces, led by the State Security Adviser, Cdr Jerry Omodara (rtd), demolished and set ablaze bandits’ camps and hideouts in Aherin-Bunu community of Kabba-Bunu Local Council.
Speaking to journalists at the location yesterday, Omodara confirmed that two wounded bandits and their fake doctors were apprehended.
He said acting on intelligence information, the security agencies arrested the two wounded bandits who were receiving treatment from local doctors in the settlement.
This came as South-West political leaders have visited victims of the recent attacks in Benue State’s Guma council area, where over 200 people were killed, and several were injured and displaced.
The delegation, led by Chairman of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Tajudeen Oluyole Olusi, commended Governor Hyacinth Alia’s handling of the situation.
During their visit yesterday to the Yelwata community and the Reverend Father Moses Orshio Adasu University Teaching Hospital in Makurdi, the team also expressed solidarity with the people.
Olusi assured the community that the GAC would support every effort to restore peace in the area and appealed to them to maintain their faith in the administration of President Bola Tinubu, who had directed security agencies to apprehend the perpetrators.
Also, the Berom Youth Moulders-Association (BYM) has condemned the renewed wave of killings in Barkin Ladi and Riyom council areas of Plateau State, where 31 persons, including minors, were murdered within one week in what it described as coordinated attacks by suspected militias.
In a statement yesterday in Jos by its president, Solomon Dalyop Mwantiri, the group recalled that hoodlums launched simultaneous attacks in the night of October 15 on Rachas village in Heipang District and Rawuru village in Fan District, both in Barkin Ladi council area.
Eleven people, including five children, were reportedly killed in Rachas, and two others in Rawuru, alongside the rustling of over 255 cows.
