The Special Military Task Force, ‘Operation Save Haven’ on Wednesday paraded three suspects in connection with the latest killings in Plateau State.
DAILY POST had reported that the Plateau State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the killing of 86 persons in attacks on Razat, Ruku, Nyarr, Kura and Gana-Ropp villages of Gashish District in Barkin Ladi Local Government.
But unconfirmed sources have claimed that over 200 people lost their lives in the attack believed to have been perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen.
The three men were said to have been captured at Gashish District in the Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau.
NAN reports that the suspects were paraded in Jos alongside 14 others, who were arrested over the killings, in which people, described as herdsmen massacred over 200 people, mainly locals and farmers on June 24.
Parading the suspects, the spokesman of the STF, Maj. Umar Adams, told reporters that the suspects were arrested clutching sophisticated riffles.
Adams said that two of the suspects were Fulani herdsmen and one Berom– one of the minority ethnic groups in Plateau — currently at odds with Fulani herdsmen over grazing rights.
Adams said the suspects were arrested in the course of the attacks.
“We all know that some days back, some villages in Barkin Ladi were attacked and these three suspects were arrested in connection with that.
“As our men were repelling the attacks in those areas we arrested these suspects with four riffles, three locally made guns and one AK47.
“The other 14 people were arrested in connection with civil unrest recently experienced in the state,” he said.
Adams said that the suspects were still being investigated and that more arrests would be made in the course of time.
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