The Benue State Police Command has announced fresh arrests in connection with the assassination of Prof. Gabriel Saawua Nyityo and his younger brother, Iorngee John Nyityo, saying investigations have extended beyond the principal suspect to other members of the alleged gang.
The Command also dismissed widespread rumours that suspected bandits had mounted roadblocks along the Makurdi-Lafia highway and were targeting Benue State travellers, describing the reports as false and deliberately circulated to cause panic.
The state Commissioner of Police, Cletus Nwadiogbu, disclosed this yesterday while briefing journalists at the Command headquarters in Makurdi on breakthroughs recorded by the police in recent weeks.
Nwadiogbu said the killings of the professor and his younger brother in Adaka community on July 8 were carefully planned assassinations rather than a robbery attack.
He explained that after receiving the distress call at about 2 a.m., operatives from the ‘D’ Division immediately mobilised to the scene where they recovered the bodies of the two victims.
