Plateau State Police Command said it has arrested 45 Shi’ites members during a banned procession on Wednesday.
The Spokesperson of the command, Terna Tyopev, on Thursday said the leader of the group, Adamu Tsoho was at large.
“Yesterday (Wednesday) we arrested 45 members of the Nigeria Shiite for disrupting public peace, 26 of them are females and 17 males; we had advised leader of the group Adamu Tsoho, not to embark on the procession,” he said.
“The leader wrote to us on Monday 10th October 2016 soliciting to embark on the procession, but we objected, we replied his letter on Tuesday 11th of October 2016, in writing, asking not embark on the procession; we handed the letter to him in person, but he went ahead against our order.”
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