Six officers of the Special Task Force (STF) in Jos, Plateau state have been injured when they were attacked by some Berom women in Rim village in Riyom local government area of the state.
A statement by STF’s media and information officer Captain Salisu Mustapha said the women became violent and started hurling insult, and throwing dangerous objects including stones at STF personnel who were on a search operation in the area; injuring six of them in the process.
“What happened in Rim was a usual random check and search operation that is conducted by STF in recent times all over the state against which the women mobilized themselves and prevented the personnel from doing their work and started calling for the withdrawal of the troop from Rim.
“The operation was necessitated following intelligence reports of suspected arms around the area and also due to some sporadic shootings going on around the area which the villagers have been crying about. The operation was conducted concurrently in three other surrounding villages of Rim namely: Diyan, Rugga Fulani Rim and Rangwei, and the operation was successful in the other three places except Rim where the women refused their places to be searched. This is disheartening and uncivilized coming from the same people whom these weapons might be used against”, he said.
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