Mayhem as police murder Protesting young people in Kogi

There was anarchy on Wednesday in Umomi people group in the Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State when some policemen joined to the Ugwolawo division opened flame on a horde of challenging young people.

Two of the young people, distinguished as Okaye Omodi and Zekeri Mohammed, were shot dead by the officers, who promptly fled to their station.


PUNCH Metro accumulated that the young people were challenging the capture and detainment of a few inhabitants, including a resigned cop recognized as Peter Adama.

Our journalist assembled that Adama and others were captured around 11pm on Tuesday by a few officers connected to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

An inhabitant, Jeremiah Idege, said the agents swooped on the group after a few Fulani herders reported that their dairy animals had been slaughtered by a few occupants.

Idege asserted that the charge was false, saying that the herders had really attacked and demolished the group's farmland.

He said. "We have issues with the Fulani herders and that has been on for whatever length of time that 15 years. They have been decimating our farmland with total surrender. As I talk with you, our group is destroyed.

"The little we have left was attacked again by their dairy animals as of late and we reported the matter at the Ugwolawo Police Division. We were given four policemen to tail us to survey the level of harm done to our yields.

"Later, the police said we ought to go to a roundtable meeting with the herders so they could resolve the case; however we cannot. We just requesting that they leave in peace. On the off chance that we gather any cash from them, they will say they have purchased the grounds and they will totally assume control what we have cleared out."

It was learnt that a couple days after the intercession fizzled, the herders reported that a few cows had been killed by the occupants.

Our journalist was informed that a portion of the group pioneers took after the herders round to see the claimed dead cows, yet discovered none.

Another inhabitant of the group, Sani Emmanuel, said the herders made the claim since they were requested that leave the town.

Emmanuel said on Monday, the Fulani pioneers reported again at the police headquarters that another arrangement of dairy animals had been killed.

He said, "On Tuesday, around 11pm, a gathering of policemen entered our town and began breaking entryways and scouring our homes. They captured many people, including Adama, who is resigned cop."

Emmnauel said the capture did not run down well with the group adolescents, who trooped out on Wednesday to dissent the proceeded with decimation of their farmland with no assistance from the security specialists.

PUNCH Metro was informed that the young people hindered the streets and sang solidarity melodies.

A witness, who did not need his name in print, said the dissent was quiet.

He said, "The challenge, which began around 10am, was tranquil and it was inside our town. All of a sudden, equipped policemen from the Ugwolawo division drove in and shot live projectiles into the group. We as a whole fled without comprehending what had happened. The policemen had left before we knew they had executed two individuals."

The cadavers were said to have been surrendered out and about until the Ata of Igala, Mr. Michael Idakwo, supposedly touched base at the scene and requested that the casualties' families ought to take them away for entombment.

An occupant said, "We don't know who to cry to now that the police, who should secure us, have betrayed us. We don't have the foggiest idea about any human rights association to swing to. If you don't mind help us; we are vulnerable."

The Police Public Relations Officer, Kogi State Command, William Aya, affirmed the occurrence, including that the state Commissioner of Police had gone to visit the scene.

He said, "I don't have every one of the subtle elements of what unfolded now. Be that as it may, the state Commissioner of Police has gone to see what really happened and mitigate the occupants. I will get back when I at last get the points of interest."

He had, be that as it may, yet to get back to as of press time.