More than 300 persons have been reportedly killed, and about 80,000 persons were displaced from 11 communities

The Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, has warned residents of troubled Mangu Local Government of Plateau State to submit all illegally acquired weapons or risk being killed.

The army chief warned on Saturday during a meeting with representatives of ethnic and other groups held at Pilot Primary School in Mangu town.

More than 300 persons have been reportedly killed, and about 80,000 persons were displaced from 11 communities in the area since clashes between farming communities and pastoralists in the area started in late April.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the major interest groups in the area, including the Mwaghavul Development Association (MDA) and Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jama’atu Nasril Islam from the area.

The meeting, according to the Nigerian army, was part of the continued efforts to find a lasting solution to the crisis that had engulfed the town and surrounding communities.

During the meeting, the army chief advised residents of the area to submit all illegally acquired weapons or risk being killed.

“We have youth carrying illicit small arms and light weapons all over the place, here in Mangu and the entire state. If you have your children carrying weapons. Call them to order as quickly as possible. Collect those weapons from them and submit them to the military. If you don’t do that, they will get killed, and they get killed, there would be no compensation,” Mr Lagbaja, a major general, said.

“So, collect the arms from them and warn them. The government has the charge, the responsibility to organise, train and equip and maintain the military, which is in the hands of the government. And the government has done that. The law does not allow you to hold military weapons. Report your problem to the appropriate channel, ” he added.

Mr Lagbaja further drew the attention of the residents to the effects of violence on the children’s future, adding that with crisis, their children will not have the opportunity to become leaders of tomorrow.

Representatives of the Mwaghavul and Fulani communities explained some of their differences.

“If they agree that we are peaceful people, they must be responsible that there must be some outsiders. Because so long as we don’t tell each other the truth, this will continue. If my dear brother, the chairman of Miyetti Allah, is telling the truth, he must reflect that in action,” Joseph Gwankat, National President of MDA, said.

“All Fulani herders in the area of Ampan and Mongul district have been chased away. I don’t know where they are at the moment. If what we are saying is true, what have the Fulanis in these areas done to deserve what they have witnessed? I am the leader of Fulani in the LGA; if something happens in some of the areas where Fulanis were chased away, who should I call to investigate? We have to stop this. It wouldn’t take us anywhere,” Bellow Shanono, MACBAN chairman, Mangu, said.

Special Operation

Meanwhile, the army chief has flagged off a special military operation codenamed ‘Operation Hakorin Damisa IV (4)’ to end the killings in Mangu LGA.

Over 300 troops were deployed for the operation.

While flagging off the operation at a stadium in Mangu, Mr Lagbaja reminded the troops to ensure that they operate by the rules of engagement. He charged troops to “respond to distress calls from communities and also give feedback so as to build confidence and trust.”

“Whoever is carrying a military-grade weapon or any weapon at all, you must recover those weapons from them. You must not take sides; operate by the book you will not run into trouble.

“You must work, and you must work effectively. We must see the result in Plateau. This violence must not resource; you must stamp it and stamp it out completely once and for all,” said Mr Lagbaja,

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/north-central/611381-plateau-killings-hand-over-your-illegally-acquired-weapons-or-get-killed-coas-warns-mangu-residents.html

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Chai! The army have never apprehended or kill the killers of the inhabitants of the Plateau but the first thing is to ask them to hand over their weapons of protection if they really have any. Haba oga Lagbaja.

Meanwhile, no killer Fulani have been asked to surrender his AK-47, none has been arrested, prosecuted or killed as a deterrent as far as the sad story of Plateau, Benue, Nassarawa, Southern Kaduna are concerned.

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Mangu people will be first class phools to heed that Lagbaja. If you want to de-militarize, go disarm the Fulani first.

The Yoruba coas.. wan roast mangu indigenous people..

So make dem surrender their weapons so that your masters will kill them..

Fear who no fear the president select and his people

The people of Plateau state should never Listen to this slave. If you do, the fulani terrorists will come & wipe you all out. Use your weapons to defend yourslves & land because they have been killing your people for a very long time & nothing happened to the killers..no arrest till date...it Shows that the fulani terrorists are afraid knowing höw you take the fight to them.

The indigenes should never back down because that Amy chief is working to continue where Buhari stopped the massacre of Plateau indigens. When the indigens are doing a good job to defend their Land..that is when you will see the slavish army generals coming to talk nonsense..but when the fulani terrorists were killing at will ..there has never been any meetings to call the fulani terrorists to order to submit their guns.

A word is enough for the wise

More good people should bear arms . The Fulani are bad guys

That is how they killed indegenous vigilante members, and tag them bandits.


Today, he is telling them to hand over their weapon of the little defence they may not even possess,🙄 while the fulanis invaders move about with military grade weapons unchallenged.


This country is a big mistake, dividing it is the only solution.

God! I don't want to apologize to Buhari ooo... 🤦🏽‍♂️

Lagbaja has forgotten he comes from

00FFT00:
Mangu people will be first class phools to heed that Lagbaja. If you want to de-militarize, go disarm the Fulani first.

This is why I am not happy about a Fulani man being NSA, if you want peace to reign make a Southerner head of the NSA

Is it a coincidence that Lagbaja's first engagement is invading SE communities and threatening middle belt indigenous people to disarm?

NOwazobia:
That is how they killed indegenous vigilante members, and tag them bandits.


Today, he is telling them to hand over their weapon of the little defence they may not even possess,🙄 while the fulanis invaders move about with military grade weapons unchallenged.


This country is a big mistake, dividing it is the only solution.

God! I don't want to apologize to Buhari ooo... 🤦🏽‍♂️

Ha! I thought he's trying to be fair to all parties. The Army needs to tread cautiously so as not to end up brewing more trouble in the area. It's painful when one sees indigenous people being forcefully dispossessed of their lands and ending up in IDP camps which destabilises them for long periods of time. Perhaps it's better to understand the grievances on both sides and sort that out first. Stories from Plateau and Southern Kaduna are so disheartening.

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That's a good call. It was reported how the army launched a counter attack against the invaders and got some killed in the aftermath, people could get killed easily seeing them in posession of illict weapons, could be mistaken for one of the invaders. There have been a kind of relief in some parts of NW and NC at the level of renewed determination among the military these past couple weeks, hopefully, the tempo is intensified and sustained.

Oh… I thought appointing a COAS from the south will bring succor to the middle belt in that there will be fair play and the aggressors will be dealt with.

It seems it will be business as usual irrespective of whoever is in charge.

Nigeria jagajaga truely.

DatNiggaDaz:
The people of Plateau state should never Listen to this slave. If you do, the fulani terrorists will come & wipe you all out. Use your weapons to defend yourslves & land because they have been killing your people for a very long time & nothing happened to the killers..no arrest till date...it Shows that the fulani terrorists are afraid knowing höw you take the fight to them.

The indigenes should never back down because that Amy chief is working to continue where Buhari stopped the massacre of Plateau indigens. When the indigens are doing a good job to defend their Land..that is when you will see the slavish army generals coming to talk nonsense..but when the fulani terrorists were killing at will ..there has never been any meetings to call the fulani terrorists to order to submit their guns.

A word is enough for the wise

You will not see the internet troll Helinues in this kind of thresd to come and vomit his normal rubbish

Coas na mad man disarm the indigenous people when Fulani bear arms all around Nigeria and nobody challenge them.

The moment you submit your weapon that night they'll attack the people.

This bring to mind the killing of Ghana Ghana the Tiv Robbins hood.

He surrendered in the morning and was murdered in the afternoon by another troops.


Disarm the Fulani first

If it is good for herdsmen to carry AK-47 to protect their cows, then it is also good for the farmers to carry AK-47. What is good for Bulus is also good for Bala

Old evil tactics by evil regime of Thief Tinubu to disarm indigenous people of their only means of defense and make them sitting ducks for final fulani terrorists attack, as it happened so many times in the past.

I don't know why some people who are ignorant are casting aspersions on the COAS.
He already assured the indigenes of protection before asking them to hand over their weapons.
I agree he will need to build trust with them before expecting that to happen but to say he's on the side of Fulani is not correct.
The Fulani terrorists were actually wiped out of those communities by the military.
He has to be balanced and fair to all sides and not pick sides to be successful

Good talk, terrorists, bandits and their accomplices have been killing Nigerians. Every nation on Earth kills terrorists, yet they don't have terrorists in their land, Nigeria is acting weak, because of evil politicians that allow their tribal bigotry get in the way of common sense. May God save Nigeria from tribal and religious bigoted politicians, those are the people destroying Nigeria. Thank God for president Tinubu and the new Army Chief. Terrorists kill Nigeria and Nigerians, are causing famine in Nigeria, only a traitor will support or spare terrorists.

keymatt:
Old evil tactics by evil regime of Thief Tinubu to disarm indigenous people of their only means of defense and make them sitting ducks for final fulani terrorists attack, as it happened so many times in the past.

You are very evil, the evil you support will catch up with you. You support terrorists killing in Nigeria.

FacilitatorLekk:

You are very evil, the evil you support will catch up with you. You support terrorists killing in Nigeria.

Says a supporter of a drug baron and mandate thief.

Kukutente23:
I don't know why some people who are ignorant are casting aspersions on the COAS.
He already assured the indigenes of protection before asking them to hand over their weapons.
I agree he will need to build trust with them before expecting that to happen but to say he's on the side of Fulani is not correct.
The Fulani terrorists were actually wiped out of those communities by the military.
He has to be balanced and fair to all sides and not pick sides to be successful

The same people have been assured over the decades by military heads, what has changed or did it stop the killings?

The report says 300 people have been killed between late April and now, which is an average of 100 deaths per month.

Kukutente23:
I don't know why some people who are ignorant are casting aspersions on the COAS.
He already assured the indigenes of protection before asking them to hand over their weapons.
I agree he will need to build trust with them before expecting that to happen but to say he's on the side of Fulani is not correct.
The Fulani terrorists were actually wiped out of those communities by the military.
He has to be balanced and fair to all sides and not pick sides to be successful

evidence please!