No member of the 61 Mobile Police Force Squadron 38, in Akwanga Nasarawa State, dispatched to dislodge the Ombatse militia group, survived the raid, The PUNCH learnt on Wednesday.

This came as the police search and rescue team deployed in Alakyo forest in the state recovered the corpse of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Momoh, who led the operation.

The team recovered Momoh’s mutilated corpse alongside those of many slain security operatives.

The police and the State Security Service had put the number of their dead or missing officials involved in the last week attack at 56. They comprised 46 police officers and 10 SSS operatives.

However, a source told our correspondent on Wednesday that no member of the PMF 38 Squadron known as ‘Tiger Squadron’ mobilised for the operation survived the militia’s attack.

“Apart from the 61 MOPOL officers that were deployed from Akwanga, we have yet to see many others mobilised from the MOPOL base in Lafia, including the men of the State CID. So the claim that only 56 policemen died cannot be true,” an officer confided in our correspondent.

citizenisb: This is proof of the massive decay and rot in the Nigerian system and proves that this country is a FAILED STATE!!!

citizenisb: This is proof of the massive decay and rot in the Nigerian system and proves that this country is a FAILED STATE!!!

koruji: Oh no, stop talking such nonsense.
As long as GEJ can build new banquet halls in Aso Rock, Patience can spend N4 billion on an edifice to avarice, and our senators can maintain their highlife in the high city of Abuja, Nigeria can never be a failed state.

However, a source told our
correspondent on Wednesday
that no member of the PMF 38
Squadron known as ‘Tiger
Squadron’ mobilised for the
operation survived the militia’s
attack.

Tolexander:
so tiger no fit defeat ombatse?

Assuming it is students' protest or NLC's protest, they will be feeling like a don with their tear gas.

babyosisi:

They have a new name now

Pepeye Squadron

Pukkah: I've said it before, this group must be dislodged before it becomes worse than Boko Haram. The way they've been killing armed police officers is mind-boggling.

This is also a wake-up call for the Nigeria Police. As presently constituted, the Police are grossly incapacitated and can't fight crime. The Police and the society are reaping what they sowed.

Omen100:





I quite agreed with you on this fellow patriot, this group must extricate now that they are still in their infancy phase, no one group or groups should raise its hands against the Nigerian State irrespective of whatever their demands. They must be crushed now.

idupaul:

Didn't Mend take up arms recently against the FG ? Have they been crushed .. So because Egoon people don't have oil the should be crushed !!! Abeg parkwell Joor

Pukkah:

Pepeye is even too advanced for them because Pepeye is a multi-skilled animal - it can swim, fly and walk.

They're better named Snail Squadron and the SSS to Snail Security Service.

talktimi: which MEND took up arms ? Don't talk about what you know nothing of jor.

idupaul:

Didn't some Niger Delta Militants kill 19 policemen recently after MEND made threats to commence hostilities.. This is how u carry bigotism up and down .. Oya go kill Eggon people now like U can , Nonsense!!!!