On her way out of the farm, she saw two police officers inside a white Toyota Hilux van speeding towards the village and two men following them on a motorbike.

“Barely ten minutes later,” she told PREMIUM TIMES from her home in Makurdi where she awaits financial assistance to treat her wounds, “I saw them coming back while I was trekking to the road to board a taxi to Makurdi. There was a dead body inside the police van and 10 Fulani men following the van on motorcycles.”

She flagged down the police van to find out what had happened but the vehicle would not stop. Then she continued her journey.

Suddenly, she said, the 10 men who were trailing the police vehicle on motorcycles made a u-turn and came towards her.