Enugu Herdsmen Killings, Mastermind Arrested

In what resembles an aftermath of objection against security lack of care, the Enu­gu State Police Com­mand has captured the associated mas­termind with the herds­men assault on Ndi­agu Attakwu Akegbe Ugwu people group in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state.

As per an announcement by the charge's spokes­man, Mr Ebere Ama­raizu, yesterday, the suspected master­mind is Umaru Isah from Gusau, capital of Zamfara. Amaraizu said that the capture of the suspect took after knowledge made accessible to the summon.

"The Enugu State Police Command, in its resolve to unmask the culprits of the assault on Ndi­agu Attakwu Akegbe Ugwu, has grabbed one Umaru Isah over his claimed involve­ment in the episode.

"The suspect, who asserted to be 20 years old, said he came to Enugu from Gusau in Zamfara State to back cows, however has none to raise till now. Examinations are still on with a perspective to un­masking his group," he said.

Amaraizu said the police would, how­ever, remain absolutely determined to guarantee that those included in the demonstration were captured and conveyed to book.

It would be reviewed that the group was assaulted by sus­pected herders in the early hours of Thursday dur­ing which a Catholic seminarian, identi­fied as Mr Lazarus Nwankwo, was killed.

Four different casualties of the same family, including a pregnant mother, likewise got different life-threaten­ing cleaver cuts on their heads and stom­ach.