NEWS REVIEW
Ombatse leader denies role in death
of 50 policemen
• Blames govt for killing, yet to
get police invitation
• ‘Security operatives’ explosives
burnt vehicles’
SPIRITUAL Head of Lakyo Village, Nasarawa South
Local Council, Nasarawa State, Ala Agu, Wednesday absolved himself of blame
over the recent killing of security operatives in Lakyo Village.
Agu, who is also the spiritual leader of the
cult Ombatse that is alleged to be responsible for the killing of 50 policemen,
said that contrary to reports that he is on the run, he is yet to receive any
police invitation.
Agu, who spoke through an interpreter, alleged
that the governor sent armed policemen to come and kill him over an issue he
knew nothing about.
The spiritual head spoke when Senator Solomon
Ewuga, representing Nasarawa North, made a tour of Lakyo community.
He said that he did not know how the security operatives died even though he
was informed that they were instructed to come and kill him.
He also said that he never forced anybody to be
initiated into the Ombatse cultural group.
He said: “I am grateful for your coming,
senator. I am very, very grateful for your coming. Even if the senator did not
come here, I had intended to go and see him in his house but since he is here,
I am very grateful.
“It is the governor that asked the people
(police officers) to come here and arrest me, cut my head and take my head to
him.
“When they came, because they were themselves
drunk, my god did not allow them to come to me and they died on the way.
“The question I ask is, has the governor ever
invited me and I refused to go? But he sent people to come and kill me and to
destroy Lakyo as a whole. That is just what it is.”
The spiritual head said he was in a nearby
village when the incident took place only for him to come back to be informed
that the governor sent people to come and kill him.
Guardian Newspaper
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