Verified reports from Shere village in the Jos Eastern Area of Plateau State claim two residents have been killed by terrorists in a fresh attack on Saturday evening.
The unfortunate incident happened while the world is still mourning the Christmas Day massacre of over 190 residents in the same state, as reported by Parallel Facts.
According to a tweet by a media outlet with the handle @Visagrad 24, one of the terrorists was killed by a local hunter in the village.
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“BREAKING: Incoming reports of an Islamist Fulani attack against Christians in the Shere village in Jos East in the Plateau State in Nigeria.
“2 confirmed to have been murdered.
“One of the Terrorists was also killed. A hunter living in the village took up his rifle and shot back,” the tweet stated.
Earlier in the day, in another distressing incident, three youths were fatally attacked in Bokkos Local Government Area, as reported by Sunday PUNCH.
These young individuals had ventured to pick up their relatives, who had sought refuge in Bokkos town during a prior invasion of their community.
Tragically, they were ambushed by gunmen at Lut village, resulting in their immediate deaths on Friday evening.
Kefas Mallai, the Chairman of Community Peace Observers in Bokkos LG, confirmed the tragic loss of the three youths to our correspondent in Jos on Saturday.
Mallai said, “Some three youths from Angwan Hausawa, Bokkos town—Lurwan Ismail, Muhammadu Tuka, and Mayo—were killed yesterday (Friday) at Lut, one of the communities earlier attacked by Terrorists on Christmas eve. They went there to pick up their loved ones who escaped to Bokkos town as IDPs when they were killed. Their bodies are missing.”
In a Saturday statement titled “Plateau Killings: A Pervasive Issue and the Urgency for State Police,” Jang emphasized the imperative for the Federal Government to take decisive actions to prevent additional assaults and fatalities in both the state and other regions of the nation.
According to the statement signed by his media consultant, Clinton Garuba, the former governor said, “It is with a grieving heart that Senator Jonah David Jang wishes to commiserate with the families that lost loved ones during the Christmas Eve attack on communities in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi local government areas of Plateau State.
“This dastardly act has once again tampered with the peace of our dear state as it was orchestrated by people who are hell-bent on ensuring that the ordinary Plateau man does not enjoy the serenity God, through nature, has bestowed on him.
“Choosing to murder harmless villagers in their homes as they prepared to celebrate the Yuletide is the most horrendous wickedness that anyone could imagine. None of the hundreds of our people who lost their lives in the Christmas Eve attack by marauding terrorists envisaged that their lives would be cut short in such a gruesome manner.
“The killings on the Plateau would seem to have gone on unabated as the non-arrest and prosecution of perpetrators have bolstered the serial killers to carry out more and more killings.
“That these killers are out on a cleansing agenda and plan to take over the lands of the people they try to wipe out is no longer hidden.
“While we agree with the President that the culprits must be apprehended and made to face prosecution, we must note that these directives have been issued repeatedly. Yet, neither arrests nor prosecutions have been made in the past. It is therefore pertinent that at this point, there is the need to attend to the call for state police as part of measures for boosting security, ensuring early response in crises and confronting the challenges of insecurity headlong.
“A situation where state governors have no powers to immediately deploy personnel to quell attacks and confront marauding terrorists is worrisome. The killings are getting out of hand and the state police option is viable for nipping these massacres in the bud. States should be given the power to create, train and equip their police to enable State Governors to deal with peculiar security situations in their various states.
More than ever, the time to heed the call for state policing is now.” #Terrorists