AS military men stepped up manhunt for those responsible for last Monday and Tuesday’s killings in Okene, Kogi State, a lawmakers is among 20 suspects so far arrested in connection with the incidents.

Saturday Tribune gathered that the suspects included some government functionaries and top politicians from Okene Local Government Council.

The sources alleged that the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District was among those in custody, while some  suspects had been taken to the Police Force Headquaters in Abuja for interrogations.

Meanwhile, heavy search is presently going in Okene, as military men deployed to the area are out in full force to recover  guns taken away from two of their colleagues killed by gunmen on Tuesday evening.

Our correspondent discovered that the Idoji area in Okene, which normally served as a haven for criminals, was under security siege on Friday, as the area was said to be one of the hideouts of some notorious criminals in Kogi Central.

Vehicles were thoroughly  searched, while people were made to lift up their hands when approaching security checkpoints.

Already, people are moving from Okene town to either Ihima axis, Ajaokuta and Ogaminana area all in the Kogi Central because of the security operations.

Similarly, the Senator representing the Kogi Central Senatorial District, Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has called on the residents of the area to remain calm and law-abiding.

The Senator, who is still on Lesser Hajj, made the call amidst tension in the district, occasioned by public complaints of harassment by soldiers deployed to restore normalcy following the successive attacks on the Deeper Life Church in Otite, Okehi LGA and the Okene Secretariat, which led to the death of about 22 persons, including two soldiers.

Also speaking, a former deputy governor in the state, Chief Patrick Adava, described the crisis in Okene as political.

Action!Action!!Action!!! Okene people don buy soja karara(wahala).

HammedSodiqq:

The Senator, who is still on Lesser Hajj, made the call amidst tension in the district, occasioned by public complaints of harassment by soldiers deployed to restore normalcy

Also speaking, a former deputy governor in the state, Chief Patrick Adava, described the crisis in Okene as political.

We have so many f.o.olish people in this country

if the killings was political then i ask again, what are they trying to achieve by killing worshippers in d church? I am confused here

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This arrested lawmaker has no name? Even if he does, what will they do to him. Someone was caught earlier who even implicated the VP. Please does anyone remember what came out of that matter?

"Similarly, the Senator representing the Kogi Central Senatorial District, Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has called on the residents of the area to remain calm and law-abiding." Did he communicate his message by phone? He needs to be advised to finish his hajj, head straight to Kogi to make his statement to his people!

Okene used to be a hot zone in the past.

i thought people are allowed to cut short the hajj and return home when there has been a calamity?

nne3870: if the killings was political then i ask again, what are they trying to achieve by killing worshippers in d church? I am confused here

If the killing was Religious, then I ask again, what were they trying to gain by killing Innocent worshipers other than landing into hell (Jahanam) according to the Islamic doctrine? I'm sure here.

Dawdy:
If the killing was Religious, then I ask again, what were they trying to gain by killing Innocent worshipers other than landing into hell (Jahanam) according to the Islamic doctrine? I'm sure here.

hypocrisy

Nigeria, ONE WEEK ONE TROUBLE.

HammedSodiqq:
The sources alleged that the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District was among those in custody, while some  suspects had been taken to the Police Force Headquaters in Abuja for interrogations.

HammedSodiqq:
Similarly, the Senator representing the Kogi Central Senatorial District, Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has called on the residents of the area to remain calm and law-abiding.

The Senator, who is still on Lesser Hajj, made the call amidst tension in the district,

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How many senators are representing Kogi Central

was he arrested whilst abroad?

Nigerian Journalist and their Nollywood stories

Government officials that are suppose to protect us, have now turned against us. They will rot in prison.

"Also speaking, a former deputy governor in the state, Chief
Patrick Adava, described the crisis in Okene as polical"

why must people always downplay a very heinous massacre of law abiding citizens as political when it is glaring that the jihadist are succeding in their grand scheme.

politicians en.....smh!

Why are all this crooks littered up in the system??

excondido: "Also speaking, a former deputy governor in the state, Chief
Patrick Adava, described the crisis in Okene as polical"

why must people always downplay a very heinous massacre of law abiding citizens as political when it is glaring that the jihadist are succeding in their grand scheme.

politicians en.....smh!

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He is a politician and he described it as political. You said it is a jihad, are you a Jihadist?

Beaf!:


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He is a politician and he described it as political. You said it is a jihad, are you a Jihadist?

see Beaf.....hahaha cool down guy.