Vihimiga said, “It was this night (Saturday morning) at New City in Zakibiam that the guys (criminals) were rounded up. It appeared that police got intelligence that the guys were hiding somewhere so they went there and killed them.
“Four of them were gunned down, some escaped. The situation is very safe here. Normally, those guys had been on the run because of the confrontation with security agencies.
“This time, they just sneaked in and security agencies which had been on alert through intelligence swooped on them and killed them.
“Zakibiam and of course, Ukum LGA is very safe. There is relative peace in Ukum LGA. Everything is going on normal now. The security agencies have been on the watch out for those criminals who ran away and have been eliminating them whenever they sneaked in.”
Confirming the incident at the police Headquarters in Makurdi, where the corpses were later brought to, CSP Gberindyer Justin, who led the onslaught against the criminal gang told journalists that the bandits were killed by his men of Operation Zenda.
Justin also said that the deceased suspects were on their way to attack a village called Gbagire in the area when his men following an intelligence tip-off accosted them, killed four while many others escaped with gun wounds.
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