The
Commissioner of Police in Delta State, Zanna Ibrahim, who spoke to
reporters over the weekend, has revealed its latest findings over the
recent operations of killer Fulani herdsmen across the country.
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Like the kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeje Onwuamadike, aka Evans, who
employed more than a few decoys to cover his tracks weeks before his
arrest by the Police, killer-herdsmen supposedly terrorizing villagers
Ovre-Abraka, Ossissa and other communities in Delta State have contrived
different ways of eluding security operatives searching for them.
Herdsmen…
NDV learned that the killer-herdsmen largely dominated by fleeing
terrorists from the northern part of the country had sent the fear of
the devil into local herdsmen in the state that nobody would want to
disclose their activities and whereabouts to the Police for fear of
being identified and killed.
Commissioner of Police, Delta State, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, who spoke
to reporters, weekend, however, declined to disclose, according to him, “for security reasons”, his findings at the Abraka ‘Sambisa forest’.
He stated: “We cannot divulge that kind of information, which
is why we call it intelligence. It is privileged information. By the
time I tell you that this is the information I have from Emma Amaize, I
will be exposing him, is that not so. So, we try to keep in confidence
the sources of our information and what we want to do.”
Similarly, a seven-man team from the office of the Inspector
General of Police, IGP, sent to Abraka, over a fortnight ago, on the
orders of the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to investigate the
activities of armed Fulani herdsmen in the area, fastened its
discoveries.
Herdsmen go into hiding - Informant
An informed source told NDV: “Most of the herdsmen carrying out
these activities are from the north like us, but we do not know them,
sometimes, they come without invitation to the Hausa and Fulani
communities in the state and there is nothing we can do about them
because they are deadly people.
“I call you that they are resident in Abraka and environs, we
do not even know their real mission, they move from one place to the
other, wrecking all kinds of havoc and people think we are the ones.
Shortly before the Police deployed men to Abraka, they went into hiding
because we have not been seeing them anymore and some of the friends
they also move about with have also disappeared. They are really
endangering our stay with our host communities.”
Re-position after operations
Findings showed that the destroyer-herdsmen, who function as
kidnappers, mercenaries, robbers and rapists used fake names and have no
fixed addresses in the state and once after their operations in a
community, they quickly relocate to another part of the state to cover
their tracks.
2 suspected arms suppliers nabbed - Commissioner of Police
A source said they get their arms from a syndicate, which the
police have arrested some of the kingpins. One of them, Musa Mohammed,
aka Musa 1000, described by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim, as a
“notorious kidnap kingpin/illegal arms dealer/supplier of arms and ammunition to kidnap syndicates” was arrested on June 1.
Commissioner Ibrahim asserted: “Musa Mohammed, aka Musa 1000,
56 years, a native of Dutsinma town in Katsina, is resident in Cable
point area Asaba. On June 1, 2017 at about 1645hrs, the suspect who has
been on the command’s watch list, having complicity in most kidnappings
related to supply of arms and ammunitions to herdsmen and kidnapping
syndicates, but has been on the run was arrested by combined team of
SAKCCS operatives and Eagle Vigilante group Abraka market Asaba.”
The commissioner disclosed that a day after Mohammed’s arrest,
detectives of the Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber-Crime Squad, SAKCCS,
Asaba, in conjunction with the Eagle Vigilante groups of Abraka Market,
Asaba, seized an ally of Musa 1000, a 45-year old national of Niger
Republic, Sa’adu Alhaji, resident at Okpanam road, Asaba, over his
complicity in most kidnap cases connected to the kidnapping syndicates
by suspected herdsmen.
Roaming herdsmen behind attacks, killings
On the hunt for herdsmen, he stated: “Delta Police Command is
aware that it is not the sedentary herdsmen that are staying with us
that are causing the problems but the ones that migrate from one place
to the other, they are criminal elements among them that come to create
this problem.”
His words: “Yes, that is true, we have deployed 131 policemen
made up of special forces, that is PMF, counter terrorism unit, general
duty policemen and SIB, that is the intelligence branch of the police
because we believe that in order checkmate the excesses of herdsmen, it
has to be a holistic approach. Our men are on the ground, they are
sniffing for information and as soon as they are credible enough and
doable, we will work on them."
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