Security Alert .Danger In Nassarawa-Eggon Area Of Nassarawa State.

If you are passing or driving around Nassarawa Eggon in Nassarawa State be careful as A section of the road at Alakyo(nassarawa Eggon) before lafia has been taken over by some militia men who have killed more than 50 policemen and are still shooting indiscriminately at vehicles. Kindly pass this information to all those you know that may be travelling towards the route.

Over 90 people were feared killed yesterday in a gun duel involving security operatives and members of the Eggon militia group, Ombatse, in Alakyo village of Lafia East development area of Nasarawa State. The operatives had been drafted there to arrest the leader of the group, Baba Alakyo, and recover arms said to be in his possession.
Of the 11 trucks of security men deployed to the area, only two returned safely to Lafia with only 20 policemen, nine of whom received different degrees of gunshot wounds. One of those killed include an assistant commissioner of police, Momoh, who led the team; some officers of the State Security Service (SSS) and about 15 Civil Defence Corps officers.
The development came just as Governor Tanko Al-Makura told Vice President Namadi Sambo that over 20 policemen were killed during the attack by the militia.
The governor had earlier proscribed the ethnic militia for visiting untold horror on different other ethnic groups in various parts of the state but the militiamen have continued to carry out their activities with brazen impunity.

LEADERSHIP findings revealed that the militiamen, who got wind of the impending arrest of their leader, Alakyo, by mobile police officers, ambushed the officers by dusk, forcing them to run away.

Addressing newsmen on the incident in his office, the state commissioner of police, MrAbayomiAkeremale, said sending his men for the arrest was to be carried out to avert a religious crisis which could be sparked off by Alakyo forcefully administering traditional concoction on adherents of other religions at variance with the Ombatse spiritual beliefs and practices.

When LEADERSHIP visited the DalhatuAraf Specialist Hospital (DASH), Lafia, the nurse in charge of the casualty who was authorised to talk to the press, Mrs Sarah Lamba, said nine officers were rushed with varying degrees of gunshots but said no access would be granted for interaction with the patients.

When contacted, the national president of Eggon Cultural Development Association, MrChris Mamman, said on getting distress calls from his people by 6pm of Tuesday, he contacted the security adviser to Governor Al-makura who said he was not aware of such a step by the security and wondered why over 10 trucks would be used to convey security for one person's arrest.