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Speaker 1: Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has confirmed

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that some residents, including vigilante members, have handed over to

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it four persons from Carno’s State court with dae guns

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in Benin City. The police said the suspects are hunters

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and not herdsmen as alleged by members of the public.

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And on the other hand, the Carno State government has

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submitted the actual names of victims and the next of

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kin to the Edo State counterpart over the killing of

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travelers court with guns at Aromi last month by irate mobs.

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The Carno State government, led by the Deputy Governor, while

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in Benin City during the week, confirmed the actual total

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numbers of persons killed at Aromi to be sixteen, saying

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the victims hailed from five local government areas of Carno State.

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Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force, in a

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statement it issued on Saturday, said that the Heado Command

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is aware of a misinformation on the social media that

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four herdsmen armed with guns were arrested at AMERICANUS Hotel

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Honestae Semwanghai Street after Big Joe Motors Ramah Park Origbeny

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Quarters and handed over to the police. The Command wishes

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to inform the general public that four suspects Yusuf Abdulkaram,

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Mujahid Gaba, Shittuidras and Jamalu Habibu, intercepted by a member

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of the Edo Security Network with three day guns, six

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empty cartridges, three half filled cartridges, four cutlasses and two

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daggers were swiftly taken over by offices from the Igpoba

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Hill Police Station. Preliminary investigation reveals that they are hunters

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not herdsmen. They were from Dogua in Krno State heading

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to Uve community in Orion when local government of Edo State. Meanwhile,

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investigation is ongoing. The Edo State Commissioner of Police, CP

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Monday Agbonica wishes to use this opportunity to discourage residents

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of the state from circulating wrong information capable of causing

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unnecessary tension. The police said, assigned and made available by

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the Police Command Public Relations Officer c spmo’s’s Jolyamu. A

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news release from the Office of the Chief Press Scretria

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to the Edo State Governor indicated that the Edo State Governor,

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Senator Monday ok Pepolo, has disclosed that the Federal in

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collaboration with the Edo State government have set up a

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fact finding committee to look into the circumstances surrounding the

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recent killings of some hunters in Aromi. Edo State Governor

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ok Pepolo stated this on Thursday when he received a

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high powered delegation from Carno State led by the Deputy

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Governor of the state, Comrade Dominu Abdul Salam Guazo, at

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the Government House in Benin City. The governor said, President

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Bola Ahmed Tenubu is not happy over what happened in

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Aromi and he is determined to ensure the state and

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nation are safe for everybody to live and do business.

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This incident has opened our eyes and we are ready

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to address a lot of issues about the country and

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how to make life better for us all. The President

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is not happy with what has happened and he wants

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us to see to the end of this dastardly act.

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The President personally wants to see to the end of

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this issue. I want to also let you know that

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the President and Edo State government have set up a

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committee to find out the remote cause or causes of

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the incident and put a lasting solution to the issue.

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This report you have submitted will actually help us so

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that we do not have to worry you. A lot

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will be done and made open to the public to

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know what the committee is doing on the issue. We

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are a peace loving people in Edo’s State. We love

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those living with us in the state. Carno and Edo

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State have been collaborating in the area of commerce and industry,

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he stated. The Deputy Governor of Carno State, Comrade Aminu

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Abdussalam Nouaseau, appreciated Governor of Pepolo for his earlier visit

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to Carno. He noted that the delegation was in Edo’s

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State to thank the governor for the peaceful steps he

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took when he came to karn In regards to the

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Aromi incident. The Governor of Karno’s State set up a

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committee to screen and verify to establish the names, numbers,

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next of kin and those who survived the attack. We

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have been able to carry out these activities and we

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have come out with a report which we are here

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to submit to your excellency. You promised us that justice

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will be done and we believe you on this, mister Governor.

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We need a transparent process on this issue. Sixteen persons

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lost the deer lives from five local government areas of

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Karno State. He explained present during the visit with the

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Deputy Governor of Edo State, Honorable Denis Idehosa, Speaker Edo’s

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State House of Assembly write Honorable Blessing Agbebaku, security heads

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in the state, senior government officials both from Karno and

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Edo State, among others. Governor o Pepolo and the delegation

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from Karno also visited Aromi where they met with members

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of House, a community in the area. Are the news

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release reads in quote assigned and made available by fred Ichua,

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the Chief Press Secretary to the Edo State Governor on Thursday,

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the tenth of April twenty twenty five. We had last

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month reported that the Edo State Governor Monday off Pepolo,

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on Monday visited Carno State to sympathize with the people

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of the state over the last Thursday killing of travelers

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at a Romi town in the Essen Northeast local government

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area of Edo State. When some youths in the Edo

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community that have been experiencing incessant killings and abductions of

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the villages by suspected herders stopped to moving Dangote Cementrak

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and found the travelers to be in possession of nineteen

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locally fabricated guns, which some members of the public claimed

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the travelers were hunters traveling from Port Harcourt in Rivers

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State to Carno with the guns alleged to be licensed.

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This the Nigeria police boss, the Inspector General of Police

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IGP car Yode Eggbetoken, apparently dismissed the allegations that the

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Dane guns were licensed and probably described the victims to

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be in possession of illegal firearms and thus warned and

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directed anyone in possession of illegal firearms to surrender such

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to the nearest police station and directed the Deputy Inspector

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General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation

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Department FCID, Dig Sad Kabubakar to take over the case.

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With reports indicating that the fourteen suspects arrested in connection

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to the mobbing and burning to death of the travelers,

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said to be sixteen in numbers, may have been transferred

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to Abouja for police investigation. Lady Brigi Bgi in a

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mortgagical way