On July 22, Mary Bello (not real name) was teaching her private pupils forgiveness in a Bible class when an army of Fulani militia invaded Jebbu-Miango, Plateau State, and razed it in its entirety. The attack — not the first in the town in recent times — would later become the unfortunate spark for a massacre in the Miango community, FIJ can exclusively report.

Between early July and August 14, at least 71 residents of Miango were gruesomely murdered by the assailants, despite the heavy presence of the Nigerian Army, including the Special Task Force of the Operation Safe Haven, officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), and Mobile Police (MOPOL) officers of the Nigeria Police Force in the volatile community of Bassa Local Government Area.

There are over 15 towns and villages within Miango, including Jebbu-Miango, Nkiehwie, Zahwra, Tafin Gana and others, but as of now, FIJ can confirm that all the inhabitants have been dislodged by these Fulani militias.

“It was even interesting how they started their recent attacks,” Bello said.

“From July 28 to August 2, these militias attacked Jebbu-Miango consistently until the town became under siege. They first started by laying ambush for three or four farmers, then moved on to the destruction of farms.

“On the night of August 2, about 200 of them engulfed Miango. They were so coordinated that while some were shooting, others were looting the houses.

“If you manage to escape the fire, your house cannot escape looting. In fact, some groups will load properties in their trucks and some others will set the houses on fire.”

NO ORDER FOR POLICE TO SHOOT


Bello questioned the presence of securities without the ability to defend the people.

“These MOPOL were also concerned that there was no order for them to engage the Fulani,” she said. “Go and investigate these things I am telling you. No security official had the order to shoot.”

“On July 28 that about 10 houses were razed, the residents had to reach a compromise with the Police. We gathered bullets for them to defend the community since they claimed they could be punished if their own bullets were not complete at the time of auditing before their superiors.”

Similar to what Bello said, FIJ had reported how a 25-year-old Stephen Fwangmun was killed in Farin Gada, the area hosting the largest tomato market in Plateau State, under the watch of officers of Operation Safe Haven, a special military task force in Plateau State.

When FIJ contacted the complaint desk of Operation Safe Haven, the soldier who answered had stated that their soldiers could not engage attackers since the order was not given.

Attackers Mock Soldiers Rescuing Dying Victim in Plateau

‘I FORGIVE THEM’


FIJ also understands that deserted Nkiewhie, also known as Ungwan Rogo, shares a fence with the Nigerian Army Armour 3 Division.

Zahwra, another town just about 500 metres from the same Army barracks, is only inhabited by cattle owned by displaced residents.

“I forgive these Fulani militias but I find it hard to forgive the government because they neglected us in our times of need,” Bello said. “Is it that the lives of the rural people don’t matter? Up till date, the Governor has not visited Miango.”

With over 30,000 community residents displaced between July and August, less-volatile towns in Rukuba Road and Jos, the capital of Plateau State, have become overwhelmed.

31 HUMANS IN ONE HOUSE


Heli Musa, a driver with Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Jos, has been hosting his brother’s family members since the end of July when their house was razed in Miango.

Musa’s brother’s family consists of 23 people, while he says his is “just eight”. All 31 are now staying together in a house at Kpachudu town.

“Feeding has been very critical,” he says. “The responsibility is now on me and my wife who is just a trader.”

INVITATION TO HELL


The attackers gave a warning to the people of Miango after a massive invasion
Many Nigerians took notice of the massacre in Miango after the killing of 22 Muslim travellers on August 14, but findings revealed that the attack had an undertone of pre-existing grievances.

On August 10, Istifanus Gyang, the senator representing Plateau North, visited Miango to access the level of the ruins.


While en route to the palace of the paramount ruler, in the entourage of Ibrahim Ali, the General Officer Commanding of the 3 Division, the militias again struck.

Three women farmers were hacked to death while they were harvesting Irish potatoes on the farm.

“It is believed that when there is a visit like that and the officers are in the entourage, the enemies are alerted and use that opportunity to infiltrate unguarded villages,” Yakubu Nuhu, the Miango Youth Development Association President, explained.

“Before that day, the community had kept three corpses to show the senator, but three more were soon added that day.”

All six would later be buried on August 14.


Six members of Miango community were buried on August 14
Even though Senator Gyang was angry and found an attack during his embarrassing, the situation worsened afterwards.

Plateau Resident Says Over 70 Killed in One Month in Just One Community

On August 15, four boys were kidnapped and are yet to be found. Again on August 17, five people were killed.

On August 19, two more women were killed on the farm.


One may wonder why some of them still return to the farm in the face of insecurity but Bello stated that “most of these people are vegetable farmers and that land is their only heritage”.

Buhari is the most outstanding semi-illiterates of our time~~ Prof. Soyinka

Nigeria insecurity...

SPEECHLESS.

sleep

This thing security official keep saying that they have no order to shoot or to engage is so annoying

Everyday terrible things just keep happening

No more erigwe in nigeria, what does that even mean?

The mute President will just carry on like nothing happened, it will never be well with his generation.

It means ethnic cleansing

sotomayor:
No more erigwe in nigeria, what does that even mean?

Simon Lalong must be stupendously stewpid.

Something like this will happen and a so called governor of the state won't even bother to pay a condolence visit to the victims.

May he never find rest, may the blood of the innocent victims which he swore to protect but failed continue to fight him...

The Plateau state governor is the main culplit here, he's more interested in been a good slave to the Fulani cabal at Abuja than to save his people, that's how governor Ortom of Benue state was misbehaving then as an APC governor until the Fulani nearly wiped away his village. Unfortunately, it's now almost too late for the indigenes to seize back their state because the Fulani have gained a strong foothold there. The other known Fulani slaves causing havoc to their people are Governor Uzodimma, Umahi, Osinbajo etc.

It virtue ethnic purging

Allawu offsprings.May God deliver us from terrorists . I don't mention anybody name biko.Nobody should chase me with ?

respect80:
Simon Lalong must be stupendously stewpid.

Something like this will happen and a so called governor of the state won't even bother to pay a condolence visit to the victims.

May he never find rest, may the blood of the innocent victims which he swore to protect but failed continue to fight him...

If swears and prayers do work do you think Nigeria will still be as useless as it is today?

Don't blame Buhari & his Fulani
brothers for their open ( not hidden)
agenda.
❌❌❌
Blame the Plateau governor, politicians
& Christian leaders who keep
quiet as ethnic cleansing is being
visited on their people.
❌❌❌
The Muslims are in charge of all the
security arms of the country & instructions
have been given that they should never
ever shoot at any Fulani, under any
condition, and we all know that the
rank & file must obey their superiors.


❌❌❌
It is now becoming clear why Buhari
only chose Fulani or Kanuri people to
control troops in Nigeria.❌❌❌

☹️☹️☹️

adecz:



Don't blame Buhari & his Fulani
brothers for their open ( not hidden)
agenda.
❌❌❌
Blame the Plateau governor, politicians
& Christian leaders who keep
quiet as ethnic cleansing is being
visited on their people.
❌❌❌
The Muslims are in charge of all the
security arms of the country & instructions
have been given that they should never
ever shoot at any Fulani, under any
condition, and we all know that the
rank & file must obey their superiors.


❌❌❌
It is now becoming clear why Buhari
only chose Fulani or Kanuri people to
control troops in Nigeria.❌❌❌

☹️☹️☹️

Seriously speaking you can't do this In Igbo land and Expect them to Wait For Military intervention

Since they don't shoot at Fulanis be Like the Fulanis and attack the Fulanis

Don't be surprised that even Some people that are killed Help Rigged Election to Allow PB to win Elections

sotomayor:
No more erigwe in nigeria, what does that even mean?

it means,the erigwe as a people have been completely wiped out.
Good morning one Nigerians.

But sometimes I do wonder
Why God Allows Helpless people to Be butchered without intervening
God please Send down Help

This was what happened Before The Biafran war
If not For Nnamdi Azikwe that stupidly said that the Hausa can't survive
We fit dey our own dey Send Nigeria Condolence messages by now

DropsMic:



If swears and prayers do work do you think Nigeria will still be as useless as it is today?

Hmmm, what more can I say bro?
I don't just know how on earth someone would be as careless as not knowing his responsibility as a governor. There are things that are worth doing even if it's just for the eyes na. Or don't you agree?

Out of jealousy and greediness some set of people got our slowpoke of a leader into power

engrchykae:
it means,the erigwe as a people have been completely wiped out.
Good morning one Nigerians.

so uneducated fool-ani can't actually write?

I can remember, Jos is one of de states dat vote Bubu de highest
U cant eat ur cake nd still hav it
No pity

sotomayor:
so uneducated fool-ani can't actually write?

what can be more readable and more audible that what the Fulani have been writing and speaking in the north Viz Kaduna,plateau and Benue?
You think they are illiterates?
You are the ignorant one here not the Fulani who are composed and knew what they are doing.

One-sided reporting.

What about the many fulanis attacked and killed by the irigwes, which often is the catalyst for the reprisals?

Why is news of their murder never reported?

As long as beroms and irigwes insist fulanis will not exist in Plateau, they'll find it hard to exist themselves.

respect80:
Simon Lalong must be stupendously stewpid.

Something like this will happen and a so called governor of the state won't even bother to pay a condolence visit to the victims.

May he never find rest, may the blood of the innocent victims which he swore to protect but failed continue to fight him...

Because he knows irigwes and beroms are troublemakers

sotomayor:
No more erigwe in nigeria, what does that even mean?

ethno cleansing...

What is going on in Plateau state is underreported.

I was at Kanam local government sometime in 2018 on an official assignment. What I saw burnt my heart.

Villages had been renamed and ancestral lands had been occupied by the Fulanis. Most of these villages, which originally had Christianity as their religion, now practiced Islam. The indigenes had changed their names from their indigenous name and bore Fulani names, as well as spoke fulfulde. More or less, their culture, tradition, religion, language, and identity had been erased. A total and complete fulanization and islamization of the village.

I had conversations with some of the indigenes and you can feel the pains and helplessness in their voice. I was told that what happened in their village has happened in other villages.

Don't take my word for it. Pay a visit to Kanam LGA and see for yourself.

Flamees:
But sometimes I do wonder
Why God Allows Helpless people to Be butchered without intervening
God please Send down Help

you can't blame God,he gave us the gift of freewill we are the architects of our own misfortune,humans are evil and its up to is to change if God controls the issues of Man we would be like Robots,it's up to humans to change.

Flamees:
But sometimes I do wonder
Why God Allows Helpless people to Be butchered without intervening
God please Send down Help

U will wait for help till u get tired.

The earlier u get up and defend your ass the better for u, cos god doesn't just give a Bleep.