Force PRO, Jimoh Moshood explained that the deployment of the Police Special Tactical Force personnel will cover all the communities, towns, villages, vulnerable points, Government and private infrastructures and facilities in the area.
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Saturday killed nine persons, including the kindred head of Ako Community in Mbalagh District, Tombo Buruku Local Government in Benue State.
The Department of State Services, DSS has said the former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, was in custody for alleged possession of assorted firearms.
The Nigerian Army has denied that it invaded six Agatu communities in Benue State, saying that it had only embarked on an operation to recoverthe body of a soldier who was killed in the area.
The protracted communal clashes that have claimed several lives and led to destruction of houses and farmlands in Agatu Benue State seem to have come to an end.
