A team of senseless police officers have brutally gunned down two youths from Kogi State protesting after Fulani Herdsmen who invaded their farms alleged that their cows were missing.
Two protesting youths from Umomi community in the Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State were on Wednesday shot dead after some policemen attached to the Ugwolawo division opened fire on a crowd of protesting youths.
At the end of the commotion, Okaye Omodi and Zekeri Mohammed, were gunned down by the trigger-happy police officers who immediately fled to their station.
In a
Punch report, the youths were protesting the arrest and detention of some residents, including a retired police officer identified as Peter Adama. Adama and others were arrested around 11pm on Tuesday by some officers attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
Revealing what led to the murder of the two men, a resident, Jeremiah Idege, said the operatives swooped on the community after some Fulani herdsmen reported that their cows had been killed by some residents. Idege claimed that the allegation was false, saying that the herdsmen had actually invaded and destroyed the community’s farmland.
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