Benue State Government has imposed a curfew on Daudu community, in Guma Local Government Area over allegations of missing manhood in the area.
Chairman of Guma local government, Hon. Caleb Abba said the decision to impose the curfew followed protests, continuous destruction of public and private properties and insistence of the youths to cause more trouble in the community.
Mr. Abba said that the curfew will run from 8p.m to 6a.m on daily basis until security situation improves in the community.
Speaking to newsmen on phone, on Wednesday, the chairman lamented that despite the intervention of community leaders and the State Governor, Samuel Ortom, youths in the community have continued with the allegations that their genitals were missing mysteriously.
He explained that after the previous destruction caused by the youths in the community, the youths, last Monday, invaded the Divisional Police Station in the community and wanted to burn it down over fresh false alarm of missing genitals.
According to him, “The reason we imposed curfew is that the youths in Daudu community have raised alarm and accused certain persons of removing their genitals; male and female organs.
“They went ahead to burn down the properties of those they suspected and even killed a pastor whom they accused of being responsible.
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“We talked to them and pleaded with them to allow the law to take its cause. Even the governor of the state went there himself to talk to them.
“But last Monday, the youths mobilized and went to the police station in Daudu threatened to burn it down, accusing one other man whom they beat to a state of unconsciousness, of removing someone’s genital organ.
“So it became too much and it appeared they will cause more destruction if they are allowed to be moving about freely.
“That calls for the imposition of curfew in the community, from 8:00p.m to 6:00a.m. It will last as long as they are not ready to rest.”
The chairman said that a motorcyclist popularly known as Okada rider had been arrested in connection with the Monday threat to burn the police station.
“He is an Okada man who raised a false alarm that he picked a passenger who touched him and his genital disappeared,” Abba said
