Tension in Benue community as mobile policemen reportedly withdraw

Tension has heightened successful Ayilamo town, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, pursuing the reported withdrawal of mobile policemen deployed to the troubled community.

It was gathered that the detachment of mobile policemen, who had been defending the volatile assemblage against attacks by equipped bandits, withdrew with their belongings, instrumentality and an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) astatine astir 8 p.m. connected Wednesday.

The improvement reportedly threw residents into panic, with galore incapable to slumber amid fears that the assemblage had been near susceptible to attacks.

A assemblage leader, Jonathan Zaye, recalled that a akin withdrawal successful Anyibe a fewer years agone paved the mode for monolithic attacks by equipped bandits.

“The bandits overran Anyibe and precocious to Ayilamo, sidesplitting residents, burning houses and destroying farmlands aft information agencies withdrew from the community,” helium said.

Traumatised residents person appealed to information agencies and authorities authorities to urgently reenforce information and support Ayilamo from a imaginable attack.

Meanwhile, the spokesm...