We Will Be Killed By Herdsmen Before COVID-19 Disappears, Plateau Residents Begs FG To Help

Posted by E.L.E.X on April 03 2020 under News

Following renewed eruption of violence in some communities in the Irigwe Chiefdom of Bassa Local government area of Plateau State, locals have begged the government for help.

According to Vanguard, residents of Teigbe and other neighbouring communities had made a frantic call for help on Thursday night over an invasion by suspected Fulani herders.

The State Police Relations Officer, ASP Gabriel Ubah on a social media platform told journalists,

“Please I need to confirm, most of the communities don’t have a network. So it is not easy to contact the office on the ground to get information.
“I will do everything possible to disseminate information as soon as I confirm. Operatives that were stationed there were asked to rush to the place immediately.”

But the President, Irigwe Development Association Sunday Abdu told journalists,

“It has become pertinent to seek your help in raising our collective voice to the orgy of evil that has once more, visit our dear land, the Irigwe chiefdom. Recently, the land has not known peace owing to the wicked activities of herders who have continued to destroy farmlands in an attempt to weaken the economic life of our people.
“While our people have continued to remain indoors and law-abiding in the wake of the national outcry over the coronavirus, the assailant Fulani herdsmen have continued each day within the last two weeks to visit us with mayhem.
On Wednesday, 1st April 2020, Ancha, one of our troubled communities was visited once more in an attack that left three people dead and various houses razed.
“On Thursday 2nd April, we woke up to bury six people burnt to death in Hukke from an overnight attack. Recently also, two young men were murdered in cold blood in Nkyiedongwro while returning from moulding bricks.
There was also the killing of two mourners at Kpenrie village on 23rd March 2020, the same day three children were also killed at Gbra Zongu village. As we prepared this release today, 3rd April, the news came in that same Nkyiedongwro suffered another night attack, such that there may be no house left unburnt.

We Will Be Killed By Herdsmen Before COVID-19 Disappears, Plateau Residents Begs FG To Help

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