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One of the Fulani herdsmen who allegedly participated in the Enugu massacre has made shocking revelations.
Speaking to SATURDAY SUN,Mohammed Zure, the herdsman who is currently in police custody revealed how members were recruited from different parts of the country to carry out the attack.
Zure, who had been initially released on bail after the prime suspect in the kidnap case for which he was nabbed, was arrested, was rearrested when the police watched a gory video of the Enugu massacre on his phone.
A police source said: “He was granted bail and because he needed someone to take him on bail, the investigating officer decided to switch on his phone. Out of curiosity, he decided to go through the content of the phone. It was in the process that he discovered horrible video clips of a murder scene. Everything changed immediately and he was taken back to the interrogation room. He later confessed that he was the one who took the video while they were slaughtering one of the victims during the Enugu killings. In the video, you could hear him shouting and saying in Hausa ‘I have killed you now. You think that you can kill Fulani herdsmen and go free’.
''He personally took the picture to show his family members that he was actually successful and participated in the killings. He confessed that they were more than 100 and were selected from different states especially from Taraba , Kogi, Benue, Nasarrawa , Kastina , Niger and Kaduna states. He claimed that the people of Nimbo had killed so many of their people in the past and government did not do anything about it.
“He claimed that they also reported severally to Nimbo elders but they refused to investigate, that was why they decided to retaliate. He alleged that their people in Nimbo shared Kolanut to all cattle rearers across the country. What it signifies is that there is going to be an attack and everyone should send representatives to support them. He alleged that this is their custom and has been existing.
“He was nominated to join them because he was born and raised in Enugu by his father who is also a herdsman. Two days before the attack, they all gathered in a community in Kogi and perfected how they would execute the attack,” the police officer added.
Speaking to SATURDAY SUN,Mohammed Zure, the herdsman who is currently in police custody revealed how members were recruited from different parts of the country to carry out the attack.
Zure, who had been initially released on bail after the prime suspect in the kidnap case for which he was nabbed, was arrested, was rearrested when the police watched a gory video of the Enugu massacre on his phone.
A police source said: “He was granted bail and because he needed someone to take him on bail, the investigating officer decided to switch on his phone. Out of curiosity, he decided to go through the content of the phone. It was in the process that he discovered horrible video clips of a murder scene. Everything changed immediately and he was taken back to the interrogation room. He later confessed that he was the one who took the video while they were slaughtering one of the victims during the Enugu killings. In the video, you could hear him shouting and saying in Hausa ‘I have killed you now. You think that you can kill Fulani herdsmen and go free’.
''He personally took the picture to show his family members that he was actually successful and participated in the killings. He confessed that they were more than 100 and were selected from different states especially from Taraba , Kogi, Benue, Nasarrawa , Kastina , Niger and Kaduna states. He claimed that the people of Nimbo had killed so many of their people in the past and government did not do anything about it.
“He claimed that they also reported severally to Nimbo elders but they refused to investigate, that was why they decided to retaliate. He alleged that their people in Nimbo shared Kolanut to all cattle rearers across the country. What it signifies is that there is going to be an attack and everyone should send representatives to support them. He alleged that this is their custom and has been existing.
“He was nominated to join them because he was born and raised in Enugu by his father who is also a herdsman. Two days before the attack, they all gathered in a community in Kogi and perfected how they would execute the attack,” the police officer added.
