Adamawa CAN Chairman not beheaded, says Police
By Ogunsona Samuel
The Adamawa State Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN) is alive, the State Police Command said.
The police faulted a viral clip suggesting that Fulani terrorist had beheaded the Adamawa CAN Chairman, Rev. Joel Manzo.
The police said the reports, coming amidst the tension generated by United States President, Donald Trump’s plan to attack terrorist cells in Nigeria was cooked up to flare ethnic and religious crisis.
The Police in a statement issued on Saturday and made available to Irohinoodua said the claims were false.
President Trump had said he would order attacks on terrorist cells in Nigeria to break the vertebrae of terror in Africa’s largest democracy.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his response called for calm promising he would work with the International community to douse tension.
Adamawa is one of the countries in the North where ethnic and religious tension are widespread
The Adamawa Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje said reports that CAN chairman, was beheaded by Fulani terrorists posted by on Lionman Lioni, was “a deliberate attempt to cause panic and religious disaffection among residents.”
The police stated that “The Command wishes to categorically refute this malicious claim in its entirety. There is no such incident recorded anywhere in Adamawa State,” the Police said.
He said the Commissioner of Police, CP Dankombo Moris, has called for calm.
