By Peter Duru
Makurdi – A Nigerian army personnel, name withheld, posted to Logo local government area of Benue state on special duty was on Sunday evening reportedly waylaid and shot dead by suspected herdsmen along Anyiin-Gbeji road while on a commercial motorbike.
Vanguard gathered from a source in the area that the personnel was traveling on a commercial motorcycle from Uwev, where a platoon is based in Gov axis near Gbeji, to Anyiin when he was gunned down.
According to the source, “we learnt from his colleagues that he had earlier received a call from his wife that the family was in need of money. So he took permission to head to Anyiin to do a back transaction.
“He boarded a commercial motorcycle around 5pm and on the way they ran into armed herdsmen who were grazing freely on the axis near Jootar.
“They tried to flee from the place but the armed herdsmen opened…
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