Benue: Dusk-to-dawn curfew declared in Otukpo as residents protest deadly Ugboju attack

The Otukpo Local Government Council has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew following Tuesday’s deadly onslaught connected the Efeyi assemblage successful Ugboju, Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, which near much than 22 radical dead.

The curfew, which runs regular from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., was announced by the Chairman of Otukpo LGA, Maxwell Ogiri, aft protests erupted successful parts of the assembly country implicit the killings.

Ogiri said the regularisation became indispensable to forestall a breakdown of instrumentality and bid aft quality reports indicated that immoderate aggrieved youths planned to determination the bodies of victims to the palace of the Och’Idoma successful protest.

According to him, information unit person been deployed to strategical locations, including the royal palace, to forestall immoderate effort to vandalise nationalist spot oregon disrupt peace.

“We are trying to guarantee that nary 1 takes vantage of the unfortunate incidental to make further unrest. After consultations with assemblage leaders, we agreed to enforce a curfew from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. to reconstruct calm and support lives and property,” Ogiri said.

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