Fulani Herdsmen recorded video of their atrocity – Police

UPDATED

These, allegedly, are the five beasts, who went to wipe out an entire community in Enugu State in April, brutally killing 20 in the process and left scores injured. Women and children were not spared. The Police say they even coolly made a video of their atrocity.

The Nigeria Police Force said yesterday that these  five suspects have been arrested in connection with the Enugu massacre in the Ukpabi Nimbo area of the state on April 25. 

The Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole disclosed this in a statement. She said: “the Nigeria Police Force in its renewed determination to rid the society of crimes and all forms of criminality, has arrested five of the suspects involved in the midnight raid on Nimbo community in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State April 25, 2016 as operatives of the IGP’s Intelligence Response Team based on credible technical intelligence swooped on them.

“The IGP’s IRT, based on the intelligence gathered on the attack, arrested the following suspects viz: Mohammed Zurai, Ciroma Musa, Sale Adamu, Suleiman Laute and Haruna Laute.”

The suspects were later paraded with all sorts of sophisticated weapons in their possession. The police also said that the callous men coolly recorded a video of their barbarous act.

The arrest comes three weeks after the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, Nwodibo Ekechukwu was removed as a result of his failure to prevent the attack on the  community by suspected  Fulani herdsmen. The Nigeria Police Headquarters is said to be miffed over Nwodibo’s careless handling of information about the impending attack. He simply did nothing to forestall the attack, which eventually sent scores of villagers to their early grave, women and children were not spared.

After failing to stop the attack, it was reported in that 76 residents of Ugwuneshi autonomous community in the Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, were later arrested while attempting to rescue their wives from the captivity of the Fulani herdsmen.