The
Assistant Director, Army Public Relations of the Guards Brigade, Capt. Bashir
Jajira, said that 36 of the suspects were arrested by the troops at a military
checkpoint between the Federal Capital Territory and Nasarawa State.
The
suspected herdsmen were said to have told the soldiers that they were on a
mission to recover their stolen cows.
He
said that 56 others who were also armed were arrested by the soldiers at a
military checkpoint at Dantata, along the Abuja Airport Road.
He
said, “A group of 36 herdsmen in Diana Truck and Toyota Camry car with
registration number Abu Kuje 994 FX and Niger SUL 541 XA were intercepted and
arrested at 177 Guards Battalion location by Keffi checkpoint.
“During
the interrogation by troops at the checkpoint, they claimed to be going to
Nasarawa Local Government in Nasarawa State.”
He
said that the arrested herdsmen would be handed over to the police for
prosecution.
This
came just as President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the deployment of military
to all parts of the country currently witnessing bloody clashes between
herdsmen and farmers.
The
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu,
disclosed this while featuring on a breakfast
programme of Channels Television, Sunrise Daily, on Monday.
The
programme was monitored by one of our correspondents in Abuja.
Shehu
said there was no truth in the claim that Buhari had been largely silent on the
issue of the clashes.
He
recalled that the President had taken the issue before the National Council of
State with a view to getting state governors’ inputs to the solutions.
In
the meantime, he said the government was contemplating carving out of grazing
reserves for cattle rearers.
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