‘Suspected cultists kill one in Benue’

Suspected cultists today killed one person in North-bank area of Makurdi metropolis in Benue State.

Police Spokesman, Ezeani Ameachi said the incident happened at Ter-Guma street in North-bank when fighting broke out between a group of youth suspected to be members of a cult group.

Ameachi explained that the police received report that one person was shot while they were fighting over some money meant to be shared amongst them but that the command is yet to ascertain if the wounded young man died in the process.

However, a witnesses told our correspondent that the money was given to the youths by some politicians at a polling unit in the area to vote for their favourite candidates and that an argument ensued between the beneficiaries following their inability to share the amount equally.

The witnesses added that the disagreement between the ‘boys’ further degenerated into physical combat before one of them brought out a gun and shot the other who they said died shortly afterwards.

But the police has debunked the claim that the incident happened in any polling unit neither was it politically motivated.

Ameachi maintained that on receiving the report he went with the commissioner of police in charge of the zone B for this election purpose, CP. Jimoh Ozi Obeh to get first hand information and that there were no evidence of violence in the polling units around the area.

He said: “voting is going on peacefully in the area. There are no reports of disruption of the process in all the polling units. I went there with the CP and everywhere was calm, the people were carrying out their civic duties responsibly.”