Several security
operatives including police
officers, SSS and Civil Defense personnel in Nassarawa State were murdered on Tuesday May 7th when they were sent by the Nassarawa State Commissioner of Police to arrest the cult leader of a
notorious militia group called 'Ombatse' (a cult group of the Eggon
people of Nasarawa State) at Assakyo Village in Lafia, Nassarawa state.
The state government wanted to arrest the chief priest because the group
had been causing security concerns in the state. Unfortunately for the
police officers sent to pick the man up, as they approached the Ombatse
Shrine in a forest, members of the militia group who had laid ambush for
them attacked and killed plenty of them. Many of the police officers
were burnt beyond recognition and 8 out of the 11 police patrol vans used to convey
the mobile policemen for the operation were burnt by the militia group.
The police command later said that only 17 out of the 90 police
officers, minus SSS and NSCDC personnel, who went on the mission
returned and all with various degrees of wounds. President Jonathan had to call off his planned visit to Namibia on Thursday because of this sad incident.
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