MACBAN demands probe into killing of Benue chairman, Ardo Risku

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has condemned the sidesplitting of its Benue State Chairman, Ardo Risku, and called connected information agencies to behaviour a thorough probe and bring those liable to justice.

In a connection signed by its National President, Baba Othman Ngelzarma, the relation said it received quality of the incidental with “deep daze and sadness.”

According to MACBAN, reports disposable to its nationalist office bespeak that Alhaji Ardo Risku had been invited by the Ohimini Local Government authorities to be a information gathering aimed astatine addressing bid and information challenges successful the area.

The relation alleged that astir an hr aft the meeting, Risku and a person were intercepted astatine Okudu village, wherever they were attacked and changeable aggregate times.

MACBAN described the incidental arsenic “a dastardly and profoundly disturbing act,” saying the circumstances surrounding the sidesplitting rise concerns astir imaginable premeditation.

“It is peculiarly troubling that a assemblage person who attended a information gathering meant to beforehand bid and stableness could allegedly go a unfortunate soon after,” the connection said.

The relation besides expressed interest implicit what it described arsenic an earlier onslaught connected 1 of the deceased’s children, a lawyer, who was allegedly attacked successful a villag...