Human
and vehicular movements were light in Okene, Kogi State on Thursday as
an uneasy calm pervaded the town where gunmen killed 19 worshippers at
the Deeper Life Bible Church at the Eikha-Adagu area on Monday.
The Commissioner of Police in Kogi, Mr Mohammed
Katsina, said on Wednesday that four persons had been arrested in
connection with the killings.
Travellers, who normally spent some 30 or more
minutes to navigate the traffic in the town, spent only about five
minutes on Thursday.
Soldiers and policemen mounted two checkpoints where they searched vehicles and their passengers.
They also conducted a house-to-house search for
weapons allegedly stolen from two soldiers who were killed in a separate
attack by gunmen on Tuesday. Two civilians also died in the incident.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the
action of the security agents caught residents unawares and some started
fleeing to neighbouring towns in Edo, Ondo and Ekiti states.
The Kogi Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Simon Ile, told NAN that policemen were sent to Okene for what he called a “mop up” exercise.
He said the security agents would sustain the operation until all the
culprits behind the killings were apprehended and the arms stolen from
the dead soldiers were recovered.Source
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