The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Moses Yamu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi, that the herdsmen abducted the youth leader in his village at Tse-Tia in Tarka Local Government.
Yamu explained that the youth leader was abducted in the early hours of Sunday while his lifeless body was found by the roadside in the same village, on Monday morning.
NAN reported that the youth protested the killing of their leader and blocked the Makurdi-Gboko Road for over four hours.
Yamu, however, said the police had already brought the situation under control.
He added that the youth should have used alternative ways to express their anger.
He also confirmed the assassination of one Msughter Tyayar and Bem Ikyomke on Gboko-Ihugh road by gunmen.
NAN reported that the late Tyayar was among the beneficiaries of the state’s amnesty programme.
Meanwhile,The Kaduna State Police Command, on Monday, paraded 15 persons suspected to belong to a kidnapping gang that had been terrorising the people of the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Shehu, who paraded the suspects at a news briefing in Kaduna, said they included those who recently kidnapped Mansur Ahmed on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway.
He said some of the suspects were in possession of foreign currencies and valuables suspected to have been snatched from their victims.
Some of the suspects told newsmen that they were members of a kidnapping gang operating on the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway.
One of them told newsmen that he was among members of the gang that kidnapped a pastor in Jere, Kaduna State.
The commissioner said the police were still investigating the involvement of the suspects in the alleged abduction of the late Army officer, Colonel Ismail Inusa.
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