A 20-year old suspected Fulani herdsman, Ibrahim Adamumale from Nasarawa state, was on Tuesday
nabbed by operatives of the Enugu state police command for allegedly
being in possession of an AK 47 rifle with 24 rounds of live ammunition.
The arrest of the suspect came three
days after the command equally arrested another 20- year old Umaru Isah
from Gusau, Zamfara State, suspected to be one of the herdsmen that
attacked and killed a Catholic seminarian, Lazarus Nwafor, and injured
four others, including a pregnant woman.
That attack had taken place at
the Ndiagu Attakwu-Akagbeugwu community in Nkanu West local government
area of Enugu state in the early hours of Thursday last week.
In a statement issued by the Public
Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, the police command said Adamumale
was arrested in Affa Udi Local Government Area of the state on Monday evening. Upon interrogation, he claimed to be from Nassarawa State but lives at Hausa quarters, 9th Mile.
“He claimed to be a herdsman with some
cows at Affa Udi bush. He was nabbed by the combined efforts of the
police and the members of the public from Affa acting on a tip-off. It
was further gathered that before he was nabbed, the suspect had expended
about six shots in the air to evade being apprehended but fell to the
superior effort of the police and members of the public who had gathered
information about the suspect’s antecedents in relation to bearing of
sophisticated weapon within Affa axis and its environs.
“The suspect is now helping the police in their investigations in relation to how he came about the rifle,” Amaraizu noted
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