More armed personnel have been deployed to areas of Plateau State that were attacked by gunmen, the Police Command in the state has said.
Speaking with journalists on Tuesday in Jos, police spokesman, ASP Terna Tyopev, said three units of armed mobile policemen had been deployed to forestall any re-occurrence of the incident in the affected areas.
His words: “We have intensified patrol of the affected areas and more officers have been deployed to contain any future occurrence.
“Three more units of armed mobile policemen have been deployed to the areas to ensure protection of lives and property.
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“The Commissioner of Police has also given a matching order to all heads of operations and officers in charge of divisions to ensure strict visibility policing across the state to avoid a repeat of the ugly incident in any part of the state.”
He disclosed too that there had been a joint aerial surveillance of the affected communities between the Police and the Nigerian Air Force.
He said no arrest had been made, but assured that investigations were ongoing to unravel the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
Over 20 natives of Ncha Village of Bassa Local Government Area were on September 16 by some gunmen.
Also, six persons were killed and over 10 houses destroyed in the early hours of Sunday at Taegbe Village, and 29 others were also killed and many injured while taking refuge in a primary school in Nkyien-Doghwro of the same locality
