FOURTEEN people were killed in separate violence
that rocked Ekiti, Plateau and Benue states on
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Three of the deaths were recorded in Ado Ekiti
during a clash between transport workers and Hausa
traders while six were in Plateau State where
gunmen invaded four villages in the Barkin Ladi Local
Government Area.
The third incident which was also by gunmen left five
persons dead in Jooter, Ukum Local Government
Area of Benue state.
The Ado Ekiti fracas was said to have started building
up on Tuesday night when a bag belonging to the
wife of a chieftain of the road transport workers was
snatched by unknown persons along the ever-busy
Ijigbo-Old Garage area of the city.
The victim was also allegedly raped, a development
that irked the drivers who, engaged the Hausa in a
fre-for-all in Erekesan Market, Oja Oba in the state
capital.
An eyewitness said the victim’s husband reported the
matter to his colleagues after his efforts to identify
the perpetrators failed.
He added that butchers who, are mainly Yoruba,
fought on the side of the Hausa against the transport
workers whom they accused of undue harassment
and unprovoked attacks.
“The fighting was made worse by hoodlums who
joined the transport workers. They were fighting
with guns, bottles, charms, clubs, cutlasses and
knives. At least three people died. Some were also
injured,” he told one of our correspondents.
Our correspondent in the state reported that the
violence spread from the market – Old Garage –
Mugbagba axis of the city to Atikankan area, a
converging point for many Hausa traders in the state.
As of the time of filing this report, Ajilosun,
Okeyinmi, Okesha and Irona were no-go areas .
According to our correspondent, the hoodlums
vandalised many vehicles and set many shops at the
Erekesan Market ablaze after looting them .
Banks and other business outlets operating in the
city were forced to shut down to avoid being looted
by the hoodlums.
Sunday Adigun, a cameraman with the Core TV, who
was beaten to a pulp, had his camera smashed
for trying to cover the fighting which was hijacked by
hoodlums.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Alberto
Adeyemi, did not confirm the deaths but he said that
four persons wounded during the fracas were taken
to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
The state new Commissioner of Police, Etop James,
who spoke with residents of the affected areas,
expressed regrets over the incident and promised to
restore normalcy in the city.
Our correspondent in Plateau State gathered that
the attack on the four villages in Barkin LGA – Jong,
Lobirin, Rabuk and Zim – was a reprisal by some
armed youths for similar incidents in some Fulani
communities.
Police Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Abu, who
confirmed the attack, said no arrest had been made.
Abu added that the Commissioner of Police, Nasiru
Oki, had ordered the redeployment of more
policemen in the LGA to prevent further attacks.
He urged the affected communities to remain calm
and report any suspicious movement to the police.
The PUNCH gathered in Benue State that about 10
gunmen in a Toyota vehicle shot sporadically at
people at a drinking spot in Jooter, Ukum LGA,
killing five of them.
The gunmen were said to be looking for a target who
was said to have gone to the place to have a drink.
An eyewitness who did not want his name in print
said that the “target” was among the injured.
The state Command’s Police Public Relations Officer,
Austin Ezeani, who confirmed the incident, said
that three people were killed and five critically
injured.

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Wetin concern housa people with the demons that robbed and raped a woman fa? Did she say they were hausa men?
I am sorry for what happened to that woman and its sad how lives were lost due to the evil those thieves did.
I hope they are caught soon by her husband or his friends.

Jesus

God Help Nigeria!

The way Hausas are ransacking SW very soon Ekiti will have an Emir and Osuniistan will have a Lamido but that's non of my business

Why attack the Hausas? Is it because they mind their business. Why pick on them?
I hate injustice

Everyday you wake up to read news of how someone is killed....


When are we going to embrace peace and stop this senseless killing