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The Edikwun Council ward Chairman of the Labour Party in Benue State, Nathaniel Ochoche has been killed by suspected herdsmen.
Edikwu Council ward is in Apa Local Government Area of the state.
The spokesman of the Labour Party in the state, Kengkeng Ati, who disclosed this to our correspondent in a telephone chat on Tuesday said that the deceased was killed by suspected armed herdsmen in Ankpali village, Edikwu district of the local government.
Ati, who said that the incident happened during the weekend said the case was reported at the police station in the local government.
“It is true it happened at his village where herdsmen laid ambush by the roadside and killed him. The report has been submitted at the police station in the area and they (police) said they are on top of it.”
Ati, who condemned the killing appealed to security agents to fish out the killers.
When contacted, the State command Police Public Relations Officer, Catherine Anene said she was not aware of the murder of the ward party leader.
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Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO.
We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited.
We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
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