Benue Police arrest 17 suspects after mob action left DPOs with machete cuts, another officer in coma

From Scholastica Hir, Makurdi
The Benue State Police Command said they have arrested 17 suspects in connection with a mob attack that left a police officers severely injured with another other in a state of coma.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Cletus Nwadiogbu disclosed this on Friday while briefing newsmen on the operational breakthrough of the command.
Parading the suspects before newsmen at the command headquarters in Makurdi on Friday, Nwadiogbu said the suspects were arrested following an investigation into a mob attack which occured on 30th August 2026, at Adagi, along the Jato-Aka-Adikpo Road in Kwande LGA of the state.
He explained the the incident occurred f...