On Thursday, the Plateau State Police Command made an arrest of a herder who had severed the left hand of farmer Jeremiah Yan in the Lakushi town of the state’s Shendam Local Government Area.
The event happened on Monday in the farmer’s land, according to DSP Alabo Alfred, the police command’s spokesperson, who also identified the herder by name as Abdulrahman Kaila.
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“When police heard the news, the commissioner of police instructed the DPO to go after the perpetrator, and in a swift reaction of the DPO, the suspect was arrested and he provided us with his motivation for cutting the farmer’s hand,” the spokeswoman said.
Narrating how he committed the offence at the state police command, the suspect said “I was grazing when the farmer stopped me and asked me to go back as the area where I was grazing is a rice farm. When I got back. He complained that his farm was destroyed by the cattle. I then pushed the cattle and before you know it, we started quarrelling. While we were quarrelling, I didn’t know how I cut off his hand. I did it out of my wish.”
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