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Benue State Livestock Guards have arrested a farmer, Atsagba Kuaa and his son at Gbamjimba in Guma Local Government Area of the state for rustling six cows.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Col. Paul Hemba retd, who disclosed this to Journalists on Saturday also said that a little boy was apprehended for openly grazing 60 cows at Yelwata.
According to the Security Adviser, the cattle rustler had confessed to rustling the cows for destroying his farm crops. He also said the suspect wanted to sell the cows at a cattle market as compensation for his destroyed crops.