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A notorious member of the illegal Ombatse militia group, who was purported to have played an important role within the killings of over ninety security operatives at Alakyio village in Lafia East Development area of Nasarawa State on may 7, has been arrested by the state police command. The 30-year-old-man, name withheld, who was been arrested on weekday evening through a tip-off at Bukan-Sidi area in Lafia, the state capital, while attempting to deal with one of the inhabitants of the area who was said to have owed his wife a considerable amount of cash, would be moved to the police force Headquarters, Abuja, tomorrow for additional interrogation and investigation into his alleged roles in the gruesome killings. Investigation by the Nigerian tribune revealed that the suspect had confessed to committing the crime, and told the police that he killed several mobile law enforcement officials throughout the attack. informed high police source also confided in the Nigerian tribune that...

  "The Nasarawa State Government on Monday issued cheques of N1 million each to the widows of policemen killed at Alakyo, Lafia Local Government Area by the Ombatse militia group. Presenting the cheques to the widows at the State Police Command in Lafia, Governor Umaru Al-Makura commiserated with them over the loss. He said the money was only meant to help augment the burial rites of their late husbands. Mr. Al-Makura, represented by Zainab Abdulmumin, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), urged the women to take the demise of their spouses in good fate and take solace in God. He said the government was doing its best to ensure that the perpetrators of the “heinous ” crime were brought to justice. The widows of late Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Momoh; and Deputy Superintendent of Police, Aliyu Zing, received N3 million and N1.5 million respectively. Mr. Momoh led the operation during which over 40 police officers were killed. The Assistant Inspector Gen...

The Latest news from Nasarawa State is not cheering , as only 17 out of the 90 Police officers, excluding other security officers, who were on a mission to arrest the chief priest of Ombatse Shrine, located at Assakyo village, about 10 kilometres from Lafia, the state capital, returned so far with various degrees of wounds. Ombatse in Eggon language literally means “time has come”. "Ambulances bringing the remains of the slain Police officers to Dalhatu Specialist Hospital Morgue in Lafia, Nasarawa State, yesterday. . This came as President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, cancelled his scheduled visit to Namibia to personally oversee efforts by security agencies to contain the new security challenge in Borno, Nassarawa and Benue states. Already, 40 dead bodies of the missing policemen had been recovered from the forests. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, and the Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam have condemned the killing of the pol...