An Inspector of Police, whose name has yet to be ascertained, has allegedly cut off his wife’s hand over what was confirmed as “a minor disagreement over N20,000.”

Sources familiar with the incident told Vanguard that the pregnant wife of the Police Inspector was still in the hospital.

The Inspector reportedly left the money at home in the Dong area of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.

By the time he returned to take the money, it was no longer where he left it, leading to an argument between him and his wife.

In the heat of the argument, he reportedly harmed his wife.

He has since been arrested and detained at the Plateau State Police Command Criminal Investigation Department.

Alabo, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, told Vanguard on the phone: “We are aware of the incident.

“The man is an Inspector.

“Right now, he is at the State CID and the investigation is ongoing.

“He had a minor misunderstanding with his wife over some money.

“They had an argument over some N20,000 he kept in the house and he said he was looking for the money to do something and an argument ensued.

“The case is under investigation.”

A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: “The wife is pregnant.

“She refused to give the man N3,000 from N20,000.

“The argument was heated and before we knew it, the man cut off her hand.

“No one can say why he did that but we are concerned about her.

“She was rushed to a hospital.”

The Police Command in Nasarawa State says it has apprehended three fake personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Ramhan Nansel, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Lafia.

Nansel said that on April 17, at about 3:45pm, the command received a distress call that four persons in a green-coloured Toyota Corolla, with registration number: Abuja: YAB 509 TT, abducted a student of Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa.

“The suspects robbed and abducted one ND II student at their lodge behind Government College, Nasarawa Local Government Area.

“On receipt of the call, the police immediately gave the suspects a hot chase and a road block was mounted at Laminga junction to stop them from escaping with the victim, but they hit the barrier and fled.

“Police operatives at Anguwan Madugu mounted another road block, which the suspects sighted from a distance, abandoned their operational vehicle and the abducted student and fled,” Nansel stated.

The police spokesperson said that luck, however, ran out of one of the suspects, as he was caught and beaten mercilessly by an angry mob before the arrival of the police, while others fled.

He said that the suspect was rescued from the mob and rushed to the Primary Healthcare Centre, Laminga, where he died while receiving treatment.

Nansel added that the operational vehicle of the suspects was recovered and taken to the station where a search was conducted and two identification cards identifying the fleeing members of the syndicate were recovered.

He said that follow-up investigation into the case led to the arrest of three other members of the gang who were residents of Custom Quarters and Up Market area, Masaka.

The police spokesperson said that one iPhone 12 Promax, Huawei and one Tecno Spark 5 earlier robbed from some of their victims and fake EFCC identification cards were recovered from them as exhibits.

He said that the suspects had confessed to being the syndicate responsible for robbing and terrorising student areas in Keffi and Nasarawa Local Government Areas.

Nansel said that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Umar Nadada, had directed that the case be transferred to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Lafia, for further investigation.

The suspects, he said, would be charged to court upon conclusion of investigation.

The lawmaker that represented Enugu North Senatorial District in the 8th Senate, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, CON, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Peter Mbah to urgently halt the ongoing bloodbath in Uzo-Uwani Local Government of Enugu State.

He said the needless killings in the agrarian communities of Uzo- Uwani, as seen in the slaughter of four people in Nimbo last Sunday have turned the area to a killing field and engendered panic among residents.

Responding to the tragic killings of four people in Nimbo by suspected herdsmen on Sunday, Senator Utazi, in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday, disclosed that the building of a Mobile Squadron Base at Nkpologu, which would have served as a swift response unit in the face of such security threats was politically thwarted by the past administration of Enugu State, thereby exposing the vast areas of Uzo Uwani to kidnappers and violent herdsmen.

The lawmaker expressed sadness that since the 2016 massacre at Nimbo, no week has passed without reports of killings and maiming of natives by rampaging herdsmen.

Senator Utazi, who was the Minority Whip in the 9th Assembly, recounted that in the wake of the 2016 massacre in Nimbo, he brought the matter to the Senate Plenaries, which prompted former President Muhammadu Buhari to dispatch IGP Solomon Arase to the scene. He noted that the IGP approved the commencement and building of the Mobile Squadron Base at Nkpologu and handed the letter personally to him to deliver to the Governor.

“Once on receipt of the letter, he convened a meeting to change the location to his preferred site and in the process robbed Uzo-Uwani LGA a project that would have put paid to the constant killings of our people,’ he said.

The Senator noted that the prosecution of the five suspects apprehended in connection with Nimbo killings suffered setbacks due to lack of fund by the Enugu State Government for diligent prosecution of the matter in court.

He further recounted that the former Governor set up a panel of inquiry to unravel the immediate and remote causes of the 2016 Nimbo killings, but there were no follow-ups on the matter and his personal attempts to bring the issue to Governor’s attention met vicious attacks from political sycophants and hired online mob. He argued that if the suspects arrested in 2016 killings were properly prosecuted, last Sunday attack could as well be averted.

Utazi explained that Uzo-Uwani has the largest landmass east of the Niger, with numerous water bodies and fertile lands which are major attractions to herdsmen.

‘That the Eastern Region Government sited Adarice Farm Settlement at Adani by Dr M.I Okpara, then Governor, was not by accident or lobby. It was because Adani and environs had comparative advantage over all other parts of the eastern region for agriculture”, he added.

In spite of the huge agricultural potentials of the area, the lawmaker noted with dissatisfaction that this year ranks as the worst farming season in the history of Uzo Uwani.

According to him, natives, farming settlements and migrant farmers have since abandoned their farms for fear of death in the hands of gun-weilding herdsmen.

“Adani, the seat of farming in Enugu State, is now a shadow of its former self. Opanda Nimbo, a cosmopolitan town thickly populated by migrant farmers from all parts of Enugu State and beyond is now totally deserted because of kidnappers and violent herdsmen’, he stated.

Senator Utazi advised Governor Mbah not to follow the unacceptable path of his predecessor in offfice in finding a lasting solution to the constant killings of natives on regular basis.

The Senator also called on Mbah to facilitate the handing over of Nkpologu Divisional Police Station to the police in order to make the place functional.
He explained that he built the station, as well as residential quarters, and provided a functional borehole and Hilux vehicle as his contribution to fighting insecurity in Uzo-Uwani.

Utazi equally advised Governor Mbah to revisit the report of the panel of inquiry on the 2016 Nimbo killings and possible publish a white paper on it. He urged the Governor to direct the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to track the matter of the five suspects arrested in connection with the 2016 Nimbo massacre and ensure diligent prosecution until justice is duly served.