The suspects had lodged in a guest inn where they were, following a tip off, arrested by the police with the fresh female head.
Mr Ato said the signal stated that on that, men of Operation Zenda JTF led by ASP. Yusuf Isah acting on a tip-off, raided a criminal hideout in Gboko town.
The police charged the persons with criminal conspiracy, act of terrorism, membership of unlawful society and culpable homicide.
The men allegedly kidnapped the Benue Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Ekpe Ogbu, on December 4, 2022.
A 42-year-old Okada rider, Samuel Ukeyima, was on Wednesday arraigned in a Makurdi chief magistrates’ court for an alleged breach of agreement.
