The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, yesterday said there was no sufficient evidence to prosecute the herdsmen alleged to have perpetrated the killings in Benue State.
The IGP also said that 18 suspects were already in police net in connection with the killings, even as the Tiv people in Bebue State, under the aegis of Mdzough U Tiv, MUT, are asking for N100billion compensation over the killings and destruction of their properties.
The IGP, was absent at the beginning of the investigative hearing in the matter on Wednesday, when the MUT President General, Edward Ujege, told the House of Representatives committee, investigating the killings, that over 984 Tiv people have so far been killed between year 2014 and 2016.

In the report co-signed by the President General of the MUT, Edward Ujege and Secretary General, Azer Ukende, presented at the hearing, Ujege told the committee that over 29, 974 people have also been displaced across the state, with properties worth over N40billion lost to the mayhem.
Resuming his testimony yesterday, when the IGP and representatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, Interior Minister, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, appeared, Ujege insisted that the negligence of security forces and the Federal Government, which commands them, led to these colosal loss.
He said it was also the demand of the Tiv nation that the herdsmen be ejected from Tiv land, as well as asked the Federal Government to investigate the carnage and punish the perpetrators.

Ujege stressed that the N100billion, which the Tiv nation was asking for, could not assuage the feelings of the loss, but was needed.
Deputy Governor of the Benue State, Benson Abonu, who spoke extensively on the killings in Agatu, said that the attackers killed, maimed, burnt down the entire settlement making it impossible for the people to return to the place.
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While the Benue people testified that 500 Agatu people were also killed in the crisis, the NSCDC said it was 300, but the IGP said only three people were killed, which made the lawmakers to conclude that the police were not on ground over the happenings in the state.
The IGP in his testimony however, expressed regrets at the number of deaths saying that he was personally worried.
He said his professional calling would not allow him to reveal all he was doing in the case, but that he had engaged all the parties in the crisis with a view to achieving peace.

He said that paucity of funds, shortage of personnel, logistics and technology, were impeding police’s efforts in the crisis.
“We have apprehended some persons, may be investigation is rather slow. You must be able to assemble sufficient evidence to prosecute them. I don’t just want to prosecute people without securing conviction,” Arase stated.
He appealed to the people to be patient with them, saying, “It is not as if we are not doing anything.”

The IGP told the committee that he has also lost men in the crisis, which had rendered women widows and children orphans in their barracks.
However, the committee members were worried that from the testimonies of the various groups from Benue State, the IGP held meetings with the Miyati Allah Cattle Rearers Association, who said that the Agatu people killed 8,000 cattles of the herdsmen that was why they retaliated by killing the people, but still referred to them as unidentified persons.

Members of the committee held that it was proper for the IGP to have gone ahead to demand that those who said to have carried out the killings be identified and arrested for justice to take its course.
The committee, however, said that it would hold further hearing with those from Agatu and the Idoma, as well as have the Benue State Commissioner of Police testify on the crisis.

https://www.today.ng/news/national/128143/benue-killings-sufficient-evidence-prosecute-herdsmen-igp

I tot they said there were video evidence on thier phones?
Am not surprised! an avenue to let them go for free but the collected 200k to bail the villagers whose only crime was to defend their land from this marauders in enugu. God dey!

Which other SUFFICIENT evidence does this yeye IG when thousands were massacred by the Fulanis who did not even deny it??



Well thank God I am no longer a Nigerian

Amazing comment from the federal police chief

tonio2wo:
I tot they said there were video evidence on thier phones?

when i was saying nobody died in enugu, benue nobody listened. D so called Herdsmen r only killing in PDP states. Ortom is a PDP in APC uniform loyal to corrupt Mark and Suswan.

enlightenedmind:


when i was saying nobody died in enugu, benue nobody listened. D so called Herdsmen r only killing in PDP states. Ortom is a PDP in APC uniform loyal to corrupt Mark and Suswan.

Pls stop quoting me! You are not enlightened at all!

Abeg shut ur mouth... Just say ur master (b uhari) haven't given you go ahead order, of which I know is not forthcoming. . Bunch of bloody miscreants that go about breeching AK47 rifles... and many series of videos of their bloody attacks. Yet you don't have evidence to prosecute them.

Arase it is a shame.
I think once you come incontact with APC/BUHARI government, LYING BECOMES YOUR NATURE.

IT IS A SHAMEFUL SHAME

There won't be sufficient evidence, so long as you are working under Buhari, the president of Hausa and Fulani herdsmen

LWKMD





https://www.nairaland.com/3129540/nepotism-alert-update-buharis-lopsided

Shame of a country. No enough evidence as though there was an investigation in the first place. The despotic ruler in Abuja will never act. Just waiting in earnest for the balkanization of this fraud.

Shame of a country. No enough evidence as though there was an investigation in the first place. The despotic ruler in Abuja will never act. Mtchweew, just waiting earnestly and hopefully for the balkanization of this fraud. Useless people everywhere.

Arase why lying because u r about to retire? You won't get fired na, ur time is already up, do the needful and talk true so we may remember you with it.

How could u work under Buhari and have sufficient evidence? They even told us Fulani herdsmen murdering Nigerians are Libyians can't u see?

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Niger Delta Avengers should blow up more pipelines this weekend to cripple the Nigerian Economy at the advantage of other oil producing countries by increasing the world price of crude oil and render the Nigerian Government broke due to loss of millions of barrel of crude oil, since we have a Sitting President who happens to be a Grand Patron of Funlani HerdsMen (Myeti Allah) and has publicly stated that fulani herdsmen are from Libya, this same Same Buhari opened his mouth as a sitting President to say he doesn't care about the Niger Delta and the South East who didn't vote for home in last year election,by calling them the 5% (Percenters).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUBTU2ZgFY
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