Police arrest Delta indigene, Piccolo over election violence

<p>He said there were reports of reprisals leading to the loss of more lives on Tuesday.</p>, <p>The youth leader of Igede Youth Council, Andyson Egbodo told DAILY POST that calm had returned.</p>, <p>They had demanded to know who authorised the Professor to make use of the land in contest.</p>, <p>However, an indigene of Mosogar Community, Voltage Gbagbanor in a chat with Our Correspondent via his Facebook timeline said the suspect was arrested following lies fabricated against him.</p>, <p>A source told DAILY POST that the dispute started on Sunday when youths of Ibilla and Oju communities engaged one another in a bloody fight over land.</p>, <p>This, thereafter, triggered a protest by the community laying claims to the land.</p>, <p>It would be recalled that the house of an APC Chieftain, Jerry Wilson Omene was burnt down by suspected hoodlums during the 2023 electioneering campaigns.</p>, <p>The Police in Delta State have arrested Innocent Piccolo Ighoyota Ojokor over alleged 2023 election matters.</p>, <p>The Police warned that anyone caught fomenting trouble will be shot dead by the military.</p>, <p>The immediate cause of the fight was an Australia-based professor from the Ibilla community who proposed to establish a university on a plot of land belonging to the community, stressing that the residents objected to the siting of the university on their land.</p>, <p>Fourteen (14) persons have been killed and property worth millions of naira destroyed following a communal crisis in the Oju Local Government Area of Benue State.</p>, <p>The source said following the clash, a curfew was imposed on residents in a bid to stem the tide of violence in the area by the state government on Monday.</p>, <p>Catherine Anene, the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, however, denied knowledge of the incident and the killings.</p>, <p>At the time of filing this report, it was not clear if Chief Jerry Wilson Omene engineered the suspect’s arrest by the Police.</p>, <p>He explained, “Some persons have died from both si