The police in Adamawa State arrested and detained a “suspicious” vulture after the residents alerted the police of its presence in the community.
The State Commissioner of Police, Adamu Audu Madaki, who confirmed the arrest on Monday, explained that some members of Maiha local government had reported that a woman was in custody of a certain vulture, adding that they claimed the last time three vultures appeared in the community, Boko Haram launched a vicious attack on the community.
It was gathered that residents insisted on the eviction of the vulture and the woman from their area and this prompted a police investigation and the subsequent arrest of the vulture and its owner.
Both have been transferred to Yola for investigation.
According to Daily Sun, the detained vulture is being fed with N5,000 worth of meat daily.
Meanwhile, Daily Post reported that a source with knowledge of happenings around the controversial vulture on Tuesday afternoon indicated that the police command was convinced that the vulture is harmless and the command is merely holding it to calm the anxiety in Maiha.
The source said,
“One of the media stories claims that someone who was being sought by the police turned into the vulture to evade arrest. This is very untrue because the said person is known to us to be in prison custody as we speak. This angle of the story is clearly false, just as the angle about Boko Haram is most unlikely.”
“The vulture will remain with the police probably up till the weekend when the dust raised by it in Maiha would have subsided.”
