The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, on Monday, arrived Benue State in North Central of Nigeria where ferocious marauders wreaked havoc last Friday, killed scores and displaced hundreds of people.
Egbetokun arrived the state in company of other senior management team and ordered for the immediate deployment of additional tactical teams.
The police chief would meet with Governor Hyacinth Alia and other state actors before departing for Abuja.
Benue State has been under heavy attacks by suspected herdsmen for some time. The killings have lingered for years, with some linking it to inter-communal conflicts as well as the quest for land dominance between the autochthonous agrarian dwellers and nomadic cattle rearers.
However, the killings in the last few weeks have been without a break. At least over 160 residents were confirmed killed in a series of attacks by suspected herdsmen who wreaked havoc in different communities in the food-producing state.
