The defendants were said to have been arrested by security operatives with knives, daggers and swords.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau has urged Nigerians to continue to support the government and security agencies to end killings in the state.
The governor said people wishing to destroy the state’s relative peace were giving the story an ethnoreligious colouration.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned the renewed violence in Jos, describing it as a tit-for-tat action.
The JNI has called on the government at all levels to be decisive in sending a message of deterrence to criminal elements and fish the Rukuba Road assassins.
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau, alarmed by the rapid spread of violence killing dozens of people, has held a closed-door meeting with security heads and religious leaders.
He said that any person or group of persons who embarks on a reprisal attack would be arrested and prosecuted.
