BUTTERMILKSUGAR:
this issue is just a friendly fire. It's very possible captain was misinformed by the locals and the captain also misinformed the soldiers on duty.
Judging by the video of the assault, the soldiers made an innocent mistake

It's very possible dats the case. Most especially since the man is well known for good in the area. Seeing how the locals also reacted shows they might not be aware the wadume is a criminal. That's why the blame for dis should lie at the door of the ONSA. How can army be actively involved in an area and police move in to make an arrest without the army's knowledge? That's a recipe for disaster.

One useless nonentity using Tekno as scapegoat while look at people that supposed to be used as scapegoat. A lawless society where money is everything. Nigerian Army u have reduce urself to nothing. RIP to the dead.

mykelswa:
OK another version of d story

The
Story is now sounding like buhari certificate

Different version every day

It's none of my business, the devil and the demons fighting.

Firstly this captain should be taken to court on the same crime as the kidnapper and also for the death of the policemen as well as aiding kidnapping.
The soldiers that pulled the trigger should be court martialed by the military but the captain must stand trial along side the kidnapper in a civilian court. Shame on him.

Reports say the army were informed. The policemen passed through these military checkpoints earlier and identified themselves and also had friendly chats but on their return they passed the first no issue but at the 2nd they were shot at based 9n instruction from above.

Buckubuck:

It's very possible dats the case. Most especially since the man is well known for good in the area. Seeing how the locals also reacted shows they might not be aware the wadume is a criminal. That's why the blame for dis should lie at the door of the ONSA. How can army be actively involved in an area and police move in to make an arrest without the army's knowledge? That's a recipe for disaster.

this is why i always condemn police shooting suspected criminals to death.now the police have become a victim of the jungle justice that they are used to.what happens to shooting ta kidnapper on the leg.now they have shut police on the stomach.

BUTTERMILKSUGAR:
this issue is just a friendly fire. It's very possible captain was misinformed by the locals and the captain also misinformed the soldiers on duty.
Judging by the video of the assault, the soldiers made an innocent mistake

The video says they were asking for the dead "service" weapons meaning they knew. The kidnapper was no restrained in ropes but police issued handcuffs. Yet he was released. Who does that. If security operatives release a kidnap victim they take them in for questioning and proper documentation and not let him go . Its a clear case of aiding and abetting . They must be punished. We cant continue to let this kind of thing continue

futurism:


LOL bros, I read people's comments on this issue and weep. Nigerian youth down south have no idea what is cooking in the North, sadly.

Army attacking police and killing just free a kidnapper should tell you why bokoharam has been alive till today.

The North will pay for their atrocities in appointed time

A big *Amen* to that. This is a time to discourage Nigerians from enlisting for the Army.

This is what I keep on saying. Extrajudicial killings, lynchings, etc only degrade society. How can a citizen openly support the lynching of a policeman at the centre of the tragic death of a pregnant woman in Lagos and not support what the army did. For whatever it is worth, 4 policemen are dead, a notorious kidnapper and perhaps a serial fraudster are in the wind.... who loses.

As a society we should lend our weight towards civility, justice and peace. Citizens should not be found at the centre of chaos. If that notorious kidnapper or alleged fraudster turns on society tomorrow we have no one but ourselves to blame.

boxypane:

A big *Amen* to that. This is a time to discourage Nigerians from enlisting for the Army.

Of course.

sholatech:
Buratai & his men cannot get away with this.

Let's thank God that the CDS is taking action, if they want to get away with it, who will stop them?

they won't get to the bottom of this matter until the kingpin is arrested. this is where I expect that foolish cow at asorock to intervene. order the police and soldiers in collaboration to find and produce that kingpin in less than 72hrs


only him can shed light on what transpired on that day as the army aren't straightforward and the victims are voiceless. the runaway kingpin is the only witness here and he should be rearrested asap before he run to keep asylum outside Nigeria

blackboy:
The video says they were asking for the dead "service" weapons meaning they knew. The kidnapper was no restrained in ropes but police issued handcuffs. Yet he was released. Who does that. If security operatives release a kidnap victim they take them in for questioning and proper documentation and not let him go . Its a clear case of aiding and abetting . They must be punished. We cant continue to let this kind of thing continue

that's another Angle to it

Okay now, I stand on a neutral ground and since this whole army- police saga came on the news, I've been pondering on what might have transpired between them before the attack. Everybody is claiming, but we still dont know the facts yet. I've watched the video, and my deduction places faults on both security agents.
On the policemen's side
1. None of the police men had the police uniform on.
2. The police men didn't use a service vehicle in carrying
out their operation.
3. They were armed on mufti and in an ordinary vehicle
that had not even a logo to suggest it belongs to a
security agency.
4 All three used a single Vehicle to arrest a crime Lord.

I know these guys are special agents and do carry out their operations in mufti. But arresting a criminal in a single non personnel vehicle without Backup? Sir, Ma, if I am a soldier and I notice a man being held in cuffs in a car like that with 3 men inside, I wouldn't hesitate to swing into action.

On the army's side
1. They killed 3 personnel of the NPF including a civilian.
2 They made the Crime scene accessible to every dick
and harry.
3 One of the policemen must have shown his ID after
the attack as what someone said in Hausa suggested
that. But the soldiers didn't give a damn.So apparently,
they already knew who they were.


Now, where is the guy that got "Arrested" or
"Kidnapped"

Nikes:
Okay now, I stand on a neutral ground and since this whole army- police saga came on the news, I've been pondering on what might have transpired between them before the attack. Everybody is claiming, but we still dont know the facts yet. I've watched the video, and my deduction places faults on both security agents.
On the policemen's side
1. None of the police men had the police uniform on.
2. The police men didn't use a service vehicle in carrying
out their operation.
3. They were armed on mufti and in an ordinary vehicle
that had not even a logo to suggest it belongs to a
security agency.
4 All three used a single Vehicle to arrest a crime Lord.

I know these guys are special agents and do carry out their operations in mufti. But arresting a criminal in a single non personnel vehicle without Backup? Sir, Ma, if I am a soldier and I notice a man being held in cuffs in a car like that with 3 men inside, I wouldn't hesitate to swing into action.

On the army's side
1. They killed 3 personnel of the NPF including a civilian.
2 They made the Crime scene accessible to every dick
and harry.
3 One of the policemen must have shown his ID after
the attack as what someone said in Hausa suggested
that. But the soldiers didn't give a damn.So apparently,
they already knew who they were.


Now, where is the guy that got "Arrested" or
"Kidnapped"

Guy your points don't make sense. To catch a criminal you must come unannounced and disguise as good as possible. If they had come with all the police arcade possible the man would have been informed and he would have escaped because he is popular around that area.

The word... Deterrence! Deterrence!! Deterrence!!!

blackboy:
Reports say the army were informed. The policemen passed through these military checkpoints earlier and identified themselves and also had friendly chats but on their return they passed the first no issue but at the 2nd they were shot at based 9n instruction from above.

Dats not official information that should come from ONSA to Army command. That never happened. The soldiers could have thought they were impersonating based on the instructions they got from their captain to apprehend them. If Army command had been informed by ONSA, no counter order will come up.

bashir1451:
So the police should not investigate on this shameful hiatus, but wait for a tea sipping presidential panel to do their job for them abi? This is not Transmission IGP ooo.

Don't mind these yeye journalists. The police are the default crime investigation body in Nigeria. They investigate any crime anywhere in the country, tea panel or not, much more the killing of their own!

Buckubuck:

Dats not official information that should come from ONSA to Army command. That never happened. The soldiers could have thought they were impersonating based on the instructions they got from their captain to apprehend them. If Army command had been informed by ONSA, no counter order will come up.

You mean the ONSA ought to inform the Army any time policemen go out to arrest a suspect?

Elchicolo:
*Police, Army’s rift deepens as two panels probe killings

rmy hierarchy has arrested the captain who allegedly ordered the killing of three operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) at Ibi, Taraba State.

A source, who disclosed this, said the captain was arrested on Saturday by the Army, but was yet to be handed over to the police for interrogation and possible prosecution.

It was also learnt that bodies of three policemen and the civilian have been moved to a mortuary in Abuja.

According to report, the remains of the officers were conveyed to Abuja early yesterday morning. They were moved to Garki General Hospital and kept in a mortuary, waiting to be buried.

The three policemen and the civilian were part of the 10 men who went to Ibi town to arrest an alleged notorious kidnapper, Alhaji Hamisu Wadume.

Moments after successfully arresting the suspect, the IRT operatives came under a hail of bullets by soldiers at a checkpoint on Ibi-Jalingo Road. The sudden attack on the bus of the operatives caused their vehicle to somersault. While other operatives escaped into the bush, those alive were shot on the stomach and chest by the soldiers, who then tagged them kidnappers. The soldiers then freed Wadume.

Meanwhile, the crack in the relationship between the Nigerian Army and Police may have deepened since the killing of three police operatives by soldiers in Taraba State.

New Telegraph recalls that three police officers attached to the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) – Inspector Mark Ediale, Sergeants Usman Danzumi and Dahiru Musa, and a civilian were shot and killed by soldiers in Ibi area of Taraba State.

According to the Police, these members of the special force were killed on their way to Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, shortly after arresting a suspected kidnap kingpin, one Alhaji Hamisu Wadume, said to have been involved in high-profile cases of kidnapping.

The Army, in its reaction, had claimed that the soldiers had mistaken the slain policemen for suspected kidnappers.

There have been no love lost since the tragic incident, as the Police insisted that the killing may have been premeditated.

Signs that all may not be well between the two security agencies emerged at the weekend, when a high-powered investigative team ordered by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, arrived Jalingo.

The panel, which is headed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigative Department (FCIID), Mr. Mike Ogbizi, commenced work despite the inauguration of a seven-man panel by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Gabriel Olonisakin.

In the wake of the Taraba killing, President Muhammadu Buhari had directed the Defence Headquarters to constitute a panel of investigation, to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident

A statement last Friday by the Acting Director of Defence Information, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, said the inauguration of the panel was in compliance with the presidential directive.

According to Nwachukwu, the Joint Investigation Panel, which had membership drawn from the Army, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Air Force, Police, the Department of State Services (DSS), as well as the Defence Intelligence Agency, had commenced work.

It is headed by Rear Admiral IT Olaiya.

A highly-placed source, who spoke in confidence with New Telegraph, said the arrival of DIG Ogbizi-led team in a day the DHQ issued a statement about the constitution of a panel “speaks volumes of the anger over the killing of the highly-trained IRT operatives.”

According to him, “the Police want to get to the root of the murder of their officers and possibly the re-arrest the fleeing kidnap suspect.”

He asked in a rhetorical tone: “Does the labelling of the slain policemen as ‘suspected kidnappers’ by the Army not worry well-meaning people?”

In his reaction, however, the Acting DDI said he was not aware of any parallel panel investigating the killing, other than the one constituted by the DHQ.

“The Joint Investigation Panel convened by the Chief of Defence Staff is in compliance with the directive of the President and the Commander-in-Chief.

“I am not aware of any parallel investigative body. The Nigeria Police and other relevant services are adequately represented in the Joint Investigation Panel,” Nwachukwu said.

Several calls put to the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, for comments were not answered.

Also, text messages sent to them had yet to be responded to as at the time of filing this report.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2019/08/taraba-killing-captain-arrested-as-policemens-bodies-arrive-abuja/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgZDrMJ0Hhk

Dreal1247:
But from the intelligence gathering, this has always been the case with the battle against insurgency in this country. For uncountable number of times, insiders know of the movement of Book Haram. The military hierarchy always give a command to the footsoldiers not to attack even when it is clear that they are under siege by the insurgents. Yet the same soldiers are attacked and killed enmass. The Dapochi attack in which Leah Shaibu was abducted is a clear evidence of the fact that the enemies are within. How did the military presence disappear when the insurgents came for the kidnapping of about 110 girls? How can one explain that? Yet they reappeared when the deeds were done. As at the time when they brought back the ones who denounced Christianity together wife the Muslims, the same soldiers were nowhere to be found. They equally resurfaced when the operation has been completed. Some people are being deceived by some people. But the wicked shall never go unpunished.

there is something the hierarchies in the Nigerian Army are doing...there are clandestine activities going on that makes kidnapping , banditary ,herdsmen and Boko Haram linger on

Buckubuck:

Dats not official information that should come from ONSA to Army command. That never happened. The soldiers could have thought they were impersonating based on the instructions they got from their captain to apprehend them. If Army command had been informed by ONSA, no counter order will come up.

they should inform the same army that is on the payroll of a kidnapper that they are coming ?


A wise man once said "who brain is given sense is expected "

All these una soldiers no dey take pictures?
4 soldiers japa with #400,000,000.00, up till now we no see their photographs!
Soldier man killed a keke rider in Abia state, till now dey no show us im photograph!!
Soldiers killed 3 police men & a civilian in Taraba State & up till now no photographs of the killer soldiers plus that of the army captain who is alleged to have given the instruction for killing.
Nigerians should disregard any information concerning their alleged arrest until we see their photographs.

Nikes:
Okay now, I stand on a neutral ground and since this whole army- police saga came on the news, I've been pondering on what might have transpired between them before the attack. Everybody is claiming, but we still dont know the facts yet. I've watched the video, and my deduction places faults on both security agents.
On the policemen's side
1. None of the police men had the police uniform on.
2. The police men didn't use a service vehicle in carrying
out their operation.
3. They were armed on mufti and in an ordinary vehicle
that had not even a logo to suggest it belongs to a
security agency.
4 All three used a single Vehicle to arrest a crime Lord.

I know these guys are special agents and do carry out their operations in mufti. But arresting a criminal in a single non personnel vehicle without Backup? Sir, Ma, if I am a soldier and I notice a man being held in cuffs in a car like that with 3 men inside, I wouldn't hesitate to swing into action.

On the army's side
1. They killed 3 personnel of the NPF including a civilian.
2 They made the Crime scene accessible to every dick
and harry.
3 One of the policemen must have shown his ID after
the attack as what someone said in Hausa suggested
that. But the soldiers didn't give a damn.So apparently,
they already knew who they were.


Now, where is the guy that got "Arrested" or
"Kidnapped"

Mr.man try and understand what a covert operation means first, then maybe, just may be I could engage u in an argument from there.
From your no.1 to no.4 point of view, it doesn't suggest to me that u know what covert operation is.

Good

JuanDeDios:

You mean the ONSA ought to inform the Army any time policemen go out to arrest a suspect?

On a high profile covert op in an area where there's active military personnel op ongoing?, Yes

Fourwinds:
they should inform the same army that is on the payroll of a kidnapper that they are coming ?


A wise man once said "who brain is given sense is expected "

You lack understanding. You think it's only the army that is corrupt?
A band of robbers caught recently along Mokwa road in Jebba were led by a policeman so I don't know what you mean by the army is on the payroll of the kidnapper.
Besides, how sure are you that the army knew him as a kidnapper and not just as a good guy? A lot of assumptions still surround the issue and given the way our security agents operate, it's very possible they thought those police officers were kidnappers in truth impersonating police officers. Information is very poor among our security circles.

Buratai and his boys are dancing naked already ..they should read Nigeria history very well ,those who betrayed the innocents in this nation don't end well in life .

So the captain has no name? This people ehn...