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  • Herdsman arrested with AK7 riffles

    Herdsman arrested with AK7 riffles

    A Fulani herdsman has been arrested with   seven AK 47 rifles in Anyibe, Benue State.

    He is currently in the custody of 72 Special Forces Battalion in Makurdi, according to the commander of the peace keeping troops at Anyiin.

    The Nation gathered that the suspect was arrested during a patrol by soldiers protecting the country home of Governor Gabriel Suswam.

    The suspect was said to have taken to his heels ion sighting the soldiers who became suspicious.

    They gave him a hot pursuit and he was caught in no time.

    During the interrogation that followed his arrest, he led the soldiers to a hole in which he hid the weapons.

    Herdsmen have launched series of attacks s on villages and hamlets in Benue State killing and maiming people.

    Houses and other property including farms and produce were either set ablaze or destroyed by them.

     

  • Herdsman jailed two years over missing cows

    A Grade 1 Area Court in Kuje area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has sentenced a 38-year-old herdsman, Baushe Shehu, to two months imprisonment for allowing two cows in his custody to be stolen.

    The herdsman, who resides in Zango Shadadi Area of Kuje, was arraigned on a one-count charge of negligent conduct.

    The prosecutor, Sgt. Niyon Ishaya, had earlier told the court that Alhaji Sani of Kayarda Area of Kuje, lodged a report against the convict at the Kuje Police Station on Nov. 29.

    He said that Shehu was employed by Sani to look after his cows at Zango Shadadi Area of Kuje, and he deliberately allowed thieves to steal two of the cows valued at N350,000.

    Ishaya also said that the convict had paid only N50,000 to the complainant, adding that he was to pay the balance of N300,000. That the offence contravened the provisions of Section 197 of the Penal Code.

    Shehu, who was not represented by a counsel, pleaded guilty to the charge, saying, “I left my duty post to visit a sick friend when the animals were stolen.’’

    The presiding Judge, Mr Nuhu Ibrahim, sentenced Shehu after he pleaded guilty.

    Ibrahim, however, gave him an option to pay N30,000 fine and N300,000 to the complainant.