Delta Police Confirms Fulani Herdsmen Arrived Asaba On Flying Boats Conveying Cows, Not Arms

The Delta state Police Command has confirmed reports that some unknown Fulani Herdsmen actually arrived Asaba, the state capital on flying boats conveying their cows but were without arms against what was being speculated in a recorded video.

Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, who disclosed this in a statement made available to BigPen Online on Wednesday, however said that the herdsmen has since been dispatched back to Kogi state where they came from with their cows.

The statement read in full: “The attention of Delta State Police Command has been drawn to a video circulating on the social media to the effect that some Fulani herdsmen have arrived Asaba by three flying boats through the River Niger and that they were seen with suspected firearms.

“The Command wishes to state that on Sunday, 21, January, 2018 at about 3pm, some herdsmen arrived Asaba bank of the River Niger in three flying boats with their cattle.

“On receipt of the information, members of the Committee on Herdsmen/ Farmers recently inaugurated by the Police Command, led by its chairman Chief Cassidy N. Iloba, Senior Special Assistant on Security to the State Governor, interrogated the herdsmen, and thereafter they returned to Kogi State where they came from.

“It is necessary to clear that none of the herdsmen was found with firearms.

“One Alhaji Katti, who has been a resident herder in the area for the past three decades, is the only one remaining there.

“He has however been warned and bounded over not to harbor any migrant herdsmen forthwith”.

Meanwhile, the Command, in conjunction with Herdsmen/Farmers Committee, the statement added, is working assiduously towards ensuring peaceful coexistence between herders and farmers in the state.

While advising the public to be vigilant, the Command calls on any person with credible information about any threat to security of any kind to furnish the police or other security agencies with such information instead of using the social media to cause unnecessary panic amongst the people.

BigPen Online recalls that a recorded video which was spread via social media had portrayed a flying boats which conveyed Fulani herdsmen as discharging items suspected to be firearms at the bank of River Niger in Asaba, a development which had caused grave fear among residents in the metropolis.

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