BY AUSTIN OGWUDA

ASABA — THREE Fulani herdsmen were, yesterday, killed in a gun battle with the police when they were allegedly caught in the act robbing motorists plying Asaba-Benin highway.

This came barely one week after  Governor  Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State set up a task force to checkmate the movement of the herdsmen, which he said  was posing a security threat.
Addressing newsmen in Asaba, yesterday, the State Police Comand’s spokesperson, Celestina Kalu said: Operatives of Special anti-robbery squad  (SARS) Asaba received information that hoodlums were sighted in the forest linking Issele-Azagba/Ibusa and Ogwashi-Uku.”