Three persons between 70 and 100 years old have
been confirmed dead and over 12 houses burnt
during an attack by Fulani herdsmen in Huke
village , Miango District in the Bassa Local
Government Area of Plateau State.
The victims are Ahmadu Hwie ( male , 100 ) , Odoh
Hwie (male , 90 ), and Gado Kondo ( male , 70) .
SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the attack , which
caught the villagers off guard , was carried out at
about 8 pm on Friday, following the peace
brokered by the Plateau State Commissioner of
Police, Adie Undie .
But the police said the suspected herdsmen “ have
adopted guerrilla tactics of hit and run, ” for which
it had deployed operatives of the state
Investigation and Intelligence Bureau “ to
intelligently sniff for information to end the
attacks and bring perpetrators to book.”
The Chairman , Committee on Health in the
Plateau State House of Assembly , Simon Ahile ,
representing Rukuba/Irigwe constituency , told our
correspondent that as representatives of their
constituencies , there was nothing the legislators
could do because the responsibility of protecting
lives and property was that of Governor Simon
Lalong .
He said, “ Even when we talk , we are not the
people to implement policies or laws made by
parliament. The governor is the chief security
officer , and therefore , for anything concerning
security , he is supposed to come out and address
the people of the state.
“ As a legislator , I can only talk, but I don ’t have
the security apparatus . We are only calling on
government to take action because it is the
responsibility of government to protect lives and
property .”
The spokesperson for the Plateau State Police
Command, Matthias Tyopev , confirmed the killing
of the three elderly men .
He said, “ On January 26 at about 18: 30hrs , while
our men were sustaining patrols around Rafi -
Bauna and Jebu- Miango areas , they received
information that at about 18 :15 hrs of the same
date , a gang of armed men , suspected to be Fulani
herdsmen, were seen killing people and burning
down houses at Huke village in Miango Chiefdom,
Bassa LGA of Plateau State.
“ On receipt of this information , they immediately
mobilised to the area. While getting close to the
village , the suspected herdsmen, on sighting our
patrol vehicles, took to their heels . As a result of
the attack , some people were shot and killed.”
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On receipt of this information , they immediately mobilised to the area. While getting close to the village , the suspected herdsmen, on sighting our patrol vehicles, took to their heels

Nigeria police - the protective arm of the Fulani militants. If na for the better south, SARS will know how to kill innocent youths. But the same police has never been able to engage these people.

Defend yourselves sha, even against the police.

One of these cows said fulani herdsmen cannot be defeated in Nigeria and he is walking free, yet the yeye security operatives will be throwing bullshit that the herdsmen are faceless. Yeye fowls wey no dey lay egg.

what a perilous time...

Boycott cow meat....that way you break the financial backbone of the killer herdsmen....The more you eat cow meat the more you fund killer herdsmen

This is very bad

Rest in peace to the dead...

Nnamdi KANU warned everyone

Enjoy the Sai Baba u voted in @plateau

the herdsmen are enjoying immunity. that's why they can not be labelled as a terrorist. God will help us.

It is well

Kogi with her Imbecilic governor hope thou seath these things. MUMU man. Thank God for Nnamdi Kanu. The Man who saw tomorrow

thought lalong was blaming or tomorrow? he will follow him soon to sign same law.

The lG and the commissioner of police for Plateau needed to be show way out of power..proscuted them

Donpresh95:
Kogi with her Imbecilic governor hope thou seath these things. MUMU man. Thank God for Nnamdi Kanu. The Man who saw tomorrow

He saw fulani herdsmen?