RECOVERED IN DELTA ARE THE LIFELESS BODIES OF SIX POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY FULANI HERDSMEN.

Babatunji Wusu –

A collaborative group of security personnel and community vigilantes has effectively removed the remains of a few police officers who were members of the PMF 51 Oghara, the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Asaba, and IRT Abuja.

After the team searched the bush on Sunday and Monday, word spread that the recovery operation was carried out in Delta State’s Ughelli North Local Government Area.

It should be noted that on January 24, 2024, a distress call was made by a person going by the name of Moses Progress, who is now at large, and three police officers—all Inspectors—were sent to the Ohoror hamlet in Ughelli North, Delta State.

Near a bridge near the tipping point, Progress claimed to have been attacked during a rite by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Regretfully, the police officers who were dispatched on this task never came back, and it is still unknown what became of them.

The claimed deaths of six officers and the disappearance of fifteen more were verified by a police inspector who escaped the herdsmen’s hold.

While Delta State police officials have not commented on the occurrence, a group of local vigilantes found the bodies of several of the fallen cops in the forest between Sunday and Monday.

According to Vanguard, the suspected killer Fulani herdsmen’s operations huts were destroyed, and six bodies were discovered in the Agadama bush. The whereabouts of the remaining bodies are still unknown.

According to a senior security source at the Delta State Police Command, who spoke about the development while maintaining their anonymity, the officers’ recovered remains have been placed in the morgue at Mariere Central Hospital in Ughelli.