Over 50 houses were burnt and eleven persons, including twins, were
murdered in the early hours of Friday in two separate attacks carried
out by suspected Fulani herdsmen on two villages in Plateau State.
President
Muhammadu Buhari had barely left Plateau State when the attacks were
launched on Ganda village of Daffo District in Bokkos Local Government
Area and Miango village in Bassa Local Government Area. The communities
were attacked few hours after the inauguration of Plateau State Peace
Building Agency by the President, who was in Jos, the state capital, on a
working visit.
The Spokesperson for the Miango Youth Development
Association, Lawrence Zongo, identified the five persons killed in
Miango as Emmanuel Joseph (16), Christopher Joseph (16), Peace Joseph
(6), Henry Audu (25), Illa Isa Peter (52). Three of them were siblings,
out of which two of them were a set of twins.
He added that Cenka Amos, four, who he said was seriously injured, was receiving treatment at Enos Hospital, Miango.
He
said, “What happened to us is very bad, (it happened) despite the
presence of President Muhammadu Buhari. The state government has been
preaching peace but Plateau State went up in flames. Five persons,
including a set of twins (Emmanuel Joseph and Christopher Joseph) and
their brother, Peace Joseph, were killed.
“We have been
devastated and shocked. Despite all the peace meetings with the Fulani
people, the assailants keep killing our innocent people without
provocation. It is sad that the military cannot arrest the Fulani
persons behind the killings. The government has failed in protecting
lives and property of citizens. Our demand is that the perpetrators
should be arrested and prosecuted.”
The National President of
Irigwe Development Association and a former member of the Plateau State
House of Assembly, Sunday Abdu, also confirmed the casualty figure of
the Bassa attack, while the Spokesperson for Bokkos Local Government
Area, Jerry Datim, confirmed that of Ganda.
Abdu said, “Yes, it
is true that five people were killed in Miango by Fulani herdsmen in an
attack which took place on Thursday night and lasted till the early part
of Friday. Others were wounded in the unprovoked attack. The bodies of
the five slaughtered people have been deposited at the hospital morgue.
We are no longer in a hurry to bury our dead. Whenever we are going to
bury them, we will let you people know.
“The Fulani herdsmen are
killing us but they are the ones crying. What kind of pretence is that? I
still appeal to the security personnel not to relent, but to step up
vigilance and surveillance to stop this pogrom and unwarranted carnage.”
Datim
said that “over 50 houses were burnt, six persons killed at Ganda,
while several persons were also injured and rushed to the hospital.”
A
lucky survivor, Matawal Mangut, who lost five brothers to the attackers
in Ganda, lamented that their house was burnt completely and that
everything they ever worked for was gone.
He called for
“assistance from the federal and state governments” to help protect them
from the persistent Fulani herders’ attacks in the area.
When
contacted, the Spokesperson for Plateau State Police Command, Matthias
Tyopev, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, confirmed the killings,
describing it as “culpable homicide and grievous hurt.”
Tyopev
also gave the names of some of the deceased persons but some of the
details were different from the information provided by Zongo.
He
said, “Yesterday (Thursday), March 8, 2018, at about 8 pm, some unknown
gunmen attacked and killed four Irigwe people at Datanko village and
one Fulani Christian at Nzharuvo village in Miango District. The
deceased persons were identified as Emmanuel Joseph (male, 16 years),
Christopher Joseph (male, 16 years), Peace Joseph (male, six years),
Henry Audu (male, 25 years) and Samuel Isah (male, 48 years).
“Meanwhile,
Samuel Isah has been buried, while four other corpses have been
deposited at the Jos University teaching hospital's Mortuary " Chenka
Amos, four, is still lying unconscious at Enos Private Hospital, Miango.
The investigation is in progress; intensive patrol is being sustained.”
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