{"id":35709,"date":"2021-09-20T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35709"},"modified":"2021-09-20T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T22:01:29","slug":"police-arrest-21-persons-over-alleged-witchcraft-killings-in-adamawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35709","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 21 persons over alleged witchcraft killings in Adamawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police have confirmed the arrest of 21 suspects,\u00a0in\u00a0connection with the killing of seven persons, allegedly through witchcraft,\u00a0in\u00a0a village\u00a0in\u00a0Adamawa.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aliyu Adamu, Commissioner of Police&nbsp;in&nbsp;the state, at a news conference on Monday&nbsp;in&nbsp;Yola, confirmed arrest of the suspects&nbsp;from&nbsp;Dasin Bwate, Fufore Local Government Area (LGA), of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adamu said that the arrest, and many other achievements, was as a result of the cordial working relationship between the command and other sister agencies, hunters and vigilantes, and as well as the police\u2019s zero tolerance for corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI want to state that the officers have keyed into the zero tolerance for corruption drive, which has reduced tremendously.\u201cThe Command has apprehended, investigated and prosecuted about 1,146 suspects for various offences&nbsp;in&nbsp;various courts of competent jurisdictions, 426 suspects had already been convicted while 720 are now awaiting trial.\u201cThese sacrifices yielded positive result, such as; the arrest of 21 suspects&nbsp;in&nbsp;connection with the recent killing of seven persons&nbsp;in&nbsp;Dasin Bwate. The case is under investigation, while the area is calm,\u201d Adamu said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Commissioner, the command was also able to dislodge and apprehend more than 400 radical armed Shilla Boys, who were terrorising people&nbsp;in&nbsp;Yola and environs, and that the suspects were charged and prosecuted accordingly.He further explained that the police had arrested more than 121 Kidnappers&nbsp;from&nbsp;across the state, and&nbsp;rescued&nbsp;some kidnapped Victims.\u201cWith the enactment of the state VAPP (Violence Against Persons Prohibition) Act, the Command prosecuted over 21 for Gender Based Violence offences across the state and&nbsp;rescued&nbsp;some rape victims.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, the Command successful cracked and apprehended some notorious highway robbers, that were terrorising Numan-Gombe road, Numan \u2013Jalingo road and Ngurore\u2013Mayo Belwa road,\u201d he said.Adamu said that the police had during the stint operations, recovered various arms and ammunition, including 20 AK47 rifles,three G3 rifles, two pump actions and seven single barrel guns.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He listed other recovered items as; 11 locally fabricated guns, 600 rounds of&nbsp;live&nbsp;ammunition, 115 cartridges andEight stolen vehicles, among others.He&nbsp;called&nbsp;on the general&nbsp;public&nbsp;to assist with useful information that would help the command&nbsp;in&nbsp;the effective discharge of its duty.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25aa\ufe0e By NAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police have confirmed the arrest of 21 suspects,\u00a0in\u00a0connection with the killing of seven persons, allegedly through witchcraft,\u00a0in\u00a0a village\u00a0in\u00a0Adamawa. Aliyu Adamu, Commissioner of Police&nbsp;in&nbsp;the state, at a news conference on Monday&nbsp;in&nbsp;Yola, confirmed arrest of the suspects&nbsp;from&nbsp;Dasin Bwate, Fufore Local Government Area (LGA), of the state. Adamu said that the arrest, and many other achievements, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1128,2325,3937],"class_list":["post-35709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adamawa","tag-killers","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}