The Nigeria Police Force has declared that some criminal
gangs with origin of Tiv in Benue State, are the suspected killers of the 17 innocent
persons at Zaki Biam, recently, including two women and 17 men, reports
ITRealms.
The Force spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood said this in Abuja at
the parading of suspects arrested in connection with the merciless killings of
innocent persons and wanton destruction of properties worth millions of Naira
at Zaki Biam in Benue State on March 20.
The 19 suspects so far arrested, he said were all Tivs and
made up of various criminal gangs on their roles in the killings of innocent
persons and other violent crimes carried out by Terwase Akwaza aka Ghana in
Benue State.
This was against earlier media reports that the killers were
Fulani Herdsmen.
He said, follows deployment of Police Special Tactical Force
and a high powered investigation team to unravel the circumstances surrounding
the gruesome killings and bring the perpetrators to justice, set up by the
Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris.
Moshood in a press statement made available to ITRealms also
said that the preliminary investigation and the operations embarked upon by the
joint Police team revealed that one Terwase Akwaza aka Ghana, a gang leader of
a vicious and notorious serial killer syndicate was responsible for the
senseless killings of seventeen (17) innocent persons at Zaki Biam and for
killing in cold blood of about fifty (50) people in other locations in Benue
State.
According to him, Akwaza is also responsible for so many
kidnappings, armed robberies and cultists violence leading to loss of lives and
properties in other parts of Benue State. Further investigation revealed that
he is also responsible for killing of Mr. Deneen Igbana (late) the Special
Adviser on Security to the Executive Governor of Benue State, Chief Samuel
Ortom.
ITRealms gathered that the joint operations comprise of the
personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Military and the Department
of State Service, who are now tasked with the arrest of Terwase Akwaza aka
Ghana and his vicious criminal gang.
The 19 suspects, Moshood said, are currently in Police
custody and have admitted to be cohorts of the wanted suspect “Terwase Akwaza
aka Ghana” and have facilitated the commission of some of the offences linked
to him at different times in Benue and other neighbouring States.
The suspects, he said, will be charged to court on completion
of investigation, 17 men and two women.
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