The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has deployed additional five units of Police Mobile Force ( PMF), Police Special Forces, Police Aerial Surveillance Helicopters and Special Police Joint Intelligence and Investigation teams to Benue and Rivers.
Gunmen on New Year day attacked and killed 50 persons in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue.
Barely four days after the killing of 17 persons on New Year eve, five persons were also killed in Egbeda, a community in Emohua Local Government Area of the state by gunmen.
A statement by the Force spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood, said that Commissioners of Police and police personnel in the affected states were placed on red-alert.
Moshood said that the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Operations was dispatched to Benue to coordinate and supervise the…
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