I asked my friend in Jos to update me on the true situation in Plateau state. At times what we read on social media could be vastly different from on-ground situation.

This is his account of what happened.
a) About 2 wks ago, a group of KFH/militia/ bandits invaded the Irigwe kingdom in Plateau, killed and maimed scores of them, destroyed hecters of farmland and burnt over 150 houses. Soldiers were reported to have stood by and did nothing to stop the carnage when the irigwe chief ask for their help, because according to them they were not ordered to intervene. The people were left to lick their wounds alone.

b) The people now decided to bury their dead last Saturday.

c) On the way to the burial site some vehicles appeared and were heading towards the same site…one of the vehicles was carrying a coffin.

d) The convoy was intercepted and the people were questioned. Most of them could not even speak Hausa and couldn’t explain why they were in that area but only said they were following instructions. Apparently, they were foreign militia.

e) The coffin they carried was forced open and lo and behold, a heap of sophisticated weapons was discovered in the casket. That was when the locals knew that they were on a mission to kill those who would attend their mass burial.
f) The locals turned on them and started killing them. About 25 of them were killed and as many more injured. While some of them escaped.

g) The locals went away with their weapons and this did not go down well with their sponsors.

h) The narrative being put out there that a group of innocent Muslims from Ondo State who went to Bauchi for an Islamic festival and on their way back to Ikare in Ondo State were intercepted in Jos and were brutally massacred is therefore to mislead Nigerians.

i) The survivors were interviewed and they said they were not from Ondo State and when the list of those killed was released, there was no Yoruba man there. They were all Fulani. The governor of Ondo State has come out to say that no Yoruba was killed in Jos to debunk the narratives of the govt’s spokesperson.

j) The introduction of the Ondo angle to the story is to create a wedge between the Yoruba and the Middle Belt people now that there is a working relationship between the South and the Middle Belt people….using the same old ‘divide and rule’ tactics.

Posted by Meg Barn.

Lienus Lienus Lienus

What then can you say about the apology tendered to the Ondo State Government by it's Plateau State Counterpart, and the subsequent repatriation of the survivors back to Ondo?

You're unfortunately coming late with your false narrative and it wasn't the first time innocent travellers were waylaid by the local miscreants.

We all saw the corpses of those killed, so can you back up your allegations with a picture of the weapons-laden casket?

I believe the Fulanis will for vengeance

Kdon2:
I asked my friend in Jos to update me on the true situation in Plateau state. At times what we read on social media could be vastly different from on-ground situation.

This is his account of what happened.
a) About 2 wks ago, a group of KFH/militia/ bandits invaded the Irigwe kingdom in Plateau, killed and maimed scores of them, destroyed hecters of farmland and burnt over 150 houses. Soldiers were reported to have stood by and did nothing to stop the carnage when the irigwe chief ask for their help, because according to them they were not ordered to intervene. The people were left to lick their wounds alone.

b) The people now decided to bury their dead last Saturday.

c) On the way to the burial site some vehicles appeared and were heading towards the same site…one of the vehicles was carrying a coffin.

d) The convoy was intercepted and the people were questioned. Most of them could not even speak Hausa and couldn’t explain why they were in that area but only said they were following instructions. Apparently, they were foreign militia.

e) The coffin they carried was forced open and lo and behold, a heap of sophisticated weapons was discovered in the casket. That was when the locals knew that they were on a mission to kill those who would attend their mass burial.
f) The locals turned on them and started killing them. About 25 of them were killed and as many more injured. While some of them escaped.

g) The locals went away with their weapons and this did not go down well with their sponsors.

h) The narrative being put out there that a group of innocent Muslims from Ondo State who went to Bauchi for an Islamic festival and on their way back to Ikare in Ondo State were intercepted in Jos and were brutally massacred is therefore to mislead Nigerians.

i) The survivors were interviewed and they said they were not from Ondo State and when the list of those killed was released, there was no Yoruba man there. They were all Fulani. The governor of Ondo State has come out to say that no Yoruba was killed in Jos to debunk the narratives of the govt’s spokesperson.

j) The introduction of the Ondo angle to the story is to create a wedge between the Yoruba and the Middle Belt people now that there is a working relationship between the South and the Middle Belt people….using the same old ‘divide and rule’ tactics.

Posted by Meg Barn.

Lies from the pit of hell!
You interogated them without recording any evidence abee...
No pictures of the purported weapons no videos nothing and you are not even ashame of this writeup, you are a disgrace to your people

qwertyboss:

Lies from the pit of hell!
You interogated them without recording any evidence abee...
No pictures of the purported weapons no videos nothing and you are not even ashame of this writeup, you are a disgrace to your people

It's like head dey pain you! Did you ever reason it that the story didn't add up. People travelling to ondo and all of them are fulanis.