Operatives of the Edo State Security Network yesterday announced the interception of four hunters with arms and ammunition.
The hunters, according to a release by the spokesman for the Edo State Police Command, Mr Moses Yamu said the men from Kano and were heading to Uvbe community in Orhionwon council area of the state.
Yamu confirmed that the men were arrested by the operatives of the Edo Security Network.
Yamu said the statement was necessary in order to dispel the misinformation on the social media that four herdsmen armed with guns were arrested in a hotel in the state and handed over to the police.
He gave the names of the cross-geopolitical boundary hunters as Messrs Yusuf Abdulkarim, Mujaheed Garba, Shittu Idris, and Jamilu Habibu.
The statement reads: “The Edo State Police Command is aware of misinformation on social media that four herdsmen armed with guns were arrested at Americanus Hotel on Osemwenkhae Street after Big Joe Motors, Ramat Park, Orogbeni Quarters and handed over to the police.
“The command wishes to inform the general public that four suspects: Yusuf Abdulkarim, Mujaheed Garba, Shittu Idris, and Jamilu Habibu, intercepted by a member of the Edo Security Network with three Dane guns, six empty cartridges, three half-filled cartridges, four cutlasses and two daggers were swiftly taken over by officers from the Ikpoba Hill Police Station.
“Preliminary investigation reveals that they are hunters, not herdsmen. They were from Doguwa in Kano State, heading to Uvbe community in Orhionwon Local Government Area of Edo State. Meanwhile, an investigation is ongoing.
“The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika, wishes to use this opportunity to discourage residents of the state from circulating wrong information capable of causing unnecessary tension.”
