The Special Task Force in charge of security in Plateau State and Southern Kaduna has arrested 10 hoodlums in connection with the recent skirmishes in Jos.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that five people were killed, several others injured and 12 houses burnt in the Jos crisis last week.

The STF Commander, Maj.-Gen. Augustine Agundu, made the disclosure on Saturday in Jos when he paraded some of the suspects.

He said during the operation to restore normalcy, troops arrested Adams Ibrahim, Bello Mohammed, Yusuf Ibrahim, Mansur Suleiman, Saudi Mohammed, Zaraddeen and Haruna in their attempt to commit arson.

Agundu said, “The suspects were arrested in possession of petrol in two water bottles, machetes, axes, and cutlasses. They were arrested while trying to commence reprisals, a situation which would have engulfed the entire Jos metropolis.

“Also during cordon and search operation in suspected hoodlums hideout in Dutse Uku, Abubakar Abdullahi, Mansur Abdullah and Agwom Azi were apprehended.”

He also said that two suspected drug peddlers, Abubakar Isah and Mukhtar Abubakar, were arrested at Congo Russia in Jos.