11 Corpses Exhumed from Shallow Graves …As Ortom reads Riot Act to security agencies
More than 11 corpses were on Thursday exhumed in Gbatse,
Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State from kidnappers’ den.
Out of the number, six have been identified by relatives
of the victims while five are yet to be identified even as it is
suspected that many are still in shallow graves. The victims most of them are
in their twenties.
The ring leader of the syndicate group identified as
Iorwuese Kpila has been arrested by the police.
According to the police authority, the hideout of
Kpila is located at a hill top surrounded by some thatch houses and a shrine
It was learnt
that few days ago, the district head of Mbagwaza Chief Julius Kpenkpen called
his Mbayegh counterpart Chief Nathaniel Hoyo and informed him that two(2) Okada
riders in his jurisdiction were missing.
The district head of Mbayegh
summoned a
meeting of leaders of the two(2) communities and demanded that the family of
Kpila should produce him.
Eventually, the suspect showed up on September 21,
2019, in the house of Chief Hoyo who handed him and other 4 accomplices over to
the Police for investigation as they confessed to the killing and burial of
numerous victims.
Speaking with journalists in Ushongo at the site of
the incident, Governor Samuel Ortom decried at the horror, noting the height of
criminality which will have no place in the State.
"Seven have been arrested so far. Four are still
at a large. We will get to the root of kidnapping in the State. They will be
fished out to face the law. All kidnappers in flashpoint local government
areas including, Vandeikya, Logo, Ukum, Kwande, and Katsina-Ala will be
apprehended.
"It is time up for criminality to thrive in the
State. Imagine that some persons have been missing for more than three (3)
years and in some instances, the ransom was paid by their relatives yet they were
murdered by these persons whose motives are to make quick money. Not even the
best lawyer in the country can save them now. I urge Benue indigenes to give
information to security agencies to eliminate this," Ortom appealed
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