Police launch investigation into killing of Benue MACBAN Chairman, condemn attack

Benue State Police Command has condemned the sidesplitting of the Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Benue State chapter, Ardo Rabo Mohammed, and different victim, Yakubu Isa, describing the onslaught arsenic a transgression enactment susceptible of undermining ongoing bid and information efforts successful the state.

The victims were reportedly attacked by chartless assailants on Friday while returning from a information gathering on the Okwudu-Ogoli Road successful Otukpo Local Government Area.

In a connection issued on Friday by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Udeme Edet, the Commissioner of Police, Benue State Command, CP Cletus C.N. Nwadiogbu, expressed heavy interest implicit the incidental and extended his condolences to the families of the deceased.

The constabulary commissioner described the onslaught arsenic “a senseless and transgression act” and assured residents that the bid had already commenced a full-scale probe into the killings.

According to him, tactical and quality assets person been deployed to identify, apprehend, and prosecute those liable for the attack...