The herdsmen attack led to a serious pandemonium and forced the closure of the market as traders ran helter-shelter to avoid being caught in the attack.

Besides, no fewer than 15 people sustained varying degrees of injuries, most of whom are receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Jalingo where the corpses of the slain victims were also deposited.

Confirming the incident in a telephone interview, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP David Missal, said no policeman was killed in the attack.

But COLOSSUS GISTS checks at the FMC revealed that the corpse of a policeman was among those deposited at the hospital’s mortuary.

Missal, however, stated that the victims were trailed to the market by the assailants on the grounds that the cows they brought to the market for sale were stolen.

According to him,

“Information available to us indicates that the attackers killed the yet- to- be identified people because the cows they brought to the market were their cows, which were stolen during the crisis in Lau LGA of the state.

He, however, declined to confirm whether the victims were from Mayo Lope in Lau LGA, saying the command was still gathering intelligence.

“We are still gathering intelligence on the attack. We are trying to find out the perpetrators who took the law into their hands, instead of reporting to us; if really a case of cattle rustling was established,” he said.

A police officer who witnessed the Kaduna incident said,

“the policemen brought the corpses of their colleagues and blocked the road leading to the command and started shooting sporadically in the air”.

According to him, a woman whose identity could not be immediately established was hit by the bullet and was rushed to the hospital where she died due to excessive bleeding.

Our correspondent gathered that the policemen were later disarmed and detained.

However reacting to the incident, spokesman of the command, Mukhtar Aliyu said in a statement that the policemen were mourning their dead colleagues when an accidental discharge occurred.

Aliyu said in a statement that the policemen who brought the corpses of their colleagues were in deep mourning mood.

According to the statement,

“the police team engaged the attackers in a fierce gun battle and at the end, two of the unidentified gunmen were killed and one AK 47 rifle was recovered.

“Unfortunately, two police officers lost their lives in the incident. However, the situation has been promptly brought under control. In their deep mourning mood, some police officers who conveyed the corpses of their late colleagues to Kaduna encountered an unfortunate incident where there was an accidental discharge of gun-shot which hit a female member of the public. She was rushed to the hospital but sadly died from sustained wounds,” he said.

According to the statement, one of the suspects was killed by the police during the gun duel.

“One AK 47 rifle with 16 rounds of live ammunition was recovered while the policemen are already combing the surrounding forest to arrest the fleeing bandits,”the statement added.

It further observed a minute silence for those who lost their lives in the attack.

The resolution followed a motion moved under matters of urgent public importance by Hon. Abdulrasaq Namdas (APC, Adamawa) on the matter.

He noted concern that 16 communities in the southern zone of the state had been involved in reprisal attacks leading to loss of lives and properties worth millions of naira.

He said the residents of affected communities had been rendered homeless with over 200 houses had been razed down.

The lawmaker, who had last year indicated he would quit politics and won’t seek a re-election to parliament because of the general belief that politicians are corrupt, said there is no evidence that the ministry executed the zonal intervention projects in his communities.

He said though the sum of N30 million had been earmarked for each of the years, no project was carried out from the money, noting that the few interventions in the zone were those carried out by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

He, therefore, sought answers on the whereabouts of the constituency allocations to his community.



[b]Source[/b]http://www.colossusgists.com/2018/07/herdsmen-killings-herdsmen-kill.html

I don't know if RIP is required to access the heaven, in case it is needed, RIP to the others but am less concerned about the police.

Normal normal na. It will rather be a surprise if don't kill under this idle junta