Natives of the affected villages in Plateau State have reportedly fled their homes after going back to bury their relatives who were killed in the genocide of last weekend.

Heavily armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen wreaked havoc in some villages in the state.

Hundreds of men dressed in black, some of them with their faces covered, surrounded the villages and began shooting from nearby hills, the villagers said in accounts confirmed by police.

Mafwak Mature, 68, burst into tears in front of the mass grave where his neighbours are buried. “Those who attacked us burnt everything,” he told AFP.

“My house has been razed, they looted all the valuable items, the motorbikes, the fertilisers I used for my farm, even the television.

“All I have left are the clothes I am wearing now,” he added, pointing to his worn grey suit.

When the first shots rang out around the remote village on Saturday at about 3:00 pm, many people in Nghar instinctively shut themselves away and prayed to God to save them.

Thirteen people from the same family were trapped and burnt alive when the gunmen set their house on fire. Their blackened bodies were taken away the next day on what was left of the corrugated roofs. Those who tried to flee were brutally cut down.

In Nghar and other villages, residents blame nomadic ethnic Fulani Muslim herders of carrying out the attacks against “indigenous” mainly Christian farming communities.

Last weekend's attack was the latest in the series of attacks by the Fulani herdsmen who have held states across the federation hostage.

Plateau has historically been a hotbed of violence between Christians and Muslims, which make up roughly half of Nigeria’s more than 180 million people. But unlike in other central states such as Benue or Taraba, which have also seen bloody communal clashes since January, there has been a fragile peace in recent years.

Reconciliation efforts have been brokered by the authorities and non-governmental organisations. With a resurgence in tensions, some settled Fulani who have lived and traded alongside the local ethnic Berom majority for generations, fear being lumped in with the troublemakers.

“Those who came here are foreigners, we don’t know anything about them,” said the head of the Fulani community in Nghar, Chiroma Yacu.

“I was born here and my father died here. We have been living in peace together for a long time.”

Now there is suspicion. By gutted homes and still-smouldering burnt-out cars, Christians point bitterly at Muslim areas which were mostly spared from the wave of violence.

In the village of Ganaropp, where 35 people were killed on Saturday, “people who fled to the mosque were lucky”, said Pam Nuhu.

“We were eating our evening meal when the shootings started around 5:30,” the 54-year-old father of seven children recalled calmly.

“I asked my family to run for their life and to go to the church. My first son was shot dead in the forehead. He was 19 years old and had just finished secondary school.”

Nuhu and others like him who lost everything are now on the move. Mattresses, televisions, plastic bowls and sacks of rice are loaded onto the roofs of old cars or rented goods lorry. One after the other, in deathly silence, heavily armed soldiers and police escort families as they drive to more secure nearby towns.

“I’m leaving to Mangu because I’m afraid, I’m really afraid,” said Paulina Auta, as she carried huge bags from her house to a grey people-carrier.

“I don’t know what I can do now, I have to start again from scratch, but if I live in this town they will come and do it again.”

See more photos HERE: https://dailynaija.com/post/photos-plateau-villagers-flee-after-burying-their-relatives-who-died-during-the-deadly-attacks-by-fulani-herdsmen

This is very unfortunate. Nigeria will not break due to IPOB or OPC but due to the useless Fulani's who think they can lay illegal claim to other people ancestral land. Until the Plateaus and Benues retaliate, this might continue. Condolences to the Government and people of Plateau

What a pity!

This can be seen as a successful mission by the Fulani marauders. The owners of the land are abandoning their homes and migrating towards southern Nigeria. After the northern Christians conquest, the south follows.

Only God knows the kind of party Buhari and his fellow Islamic terrorists with be throwing behind closed doors right now.
Mission accomplished!!.
They have chased Christians out of their own land for his fellow fuulani terrorists brothers to occupy.... The same people that voted for him in 2015. What a pity Smh.
Buhari brothers chased out thousands of Christians away from their own land in Benue state previously, today is Platue state.Who knows the next Christian state they will face ?

MOHAMMAD BUHARI REJOICE... FOR YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED YOUR AGENDA...

The evil that men do...

Terrorist Buhari is succeeding.

This has always been his game plan.

Buhari you no go die better death

Reminds me of the civil war. Gowon was in Lagos partying.

Oga Gowon, are you still partying?

Gowon, good morning sir. I hope your day don break?

DrGoodman:
Reminds me of the civil war. Gowon was in Lagos partying.

Very unfortunate.
Both Gowon and Buhari will know no peace.
History is just repeating itself at the doorstep of the originator of genocide
Its a pity.

karma is really a bitch, our brothers from the east warned us fourty years ago, an the rest is history , rip to the dead

The people that gave "herdsmen " gun, the way God will punish them will be dramatic. Nigeria is a country that used to be peaceful especially the north, now, some people who are more wicked than the devil have turned it to one of the worst countries in the world. God please help us.

This is mission acomplished, the next target loading......

Agatu and many of the villages attecked in benue state is today occupied by fulanis and their herds...........the conquest is going smootly as planed....Alhamdulilahi

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I nogo better for buhari, osibanjo tinubu Adeboye Mbaka and anyone responsible in enthroning this jihadist government. Them nogo die better...

The ghost of Biafra lives with the evil ones.

All those who killed Biafrans have no peace now.

that's d change u voted for

enjoy it

ibori1:
that's d change u voted for


enjoy it

Don't be ignorant. Do you know Jonathan won Taraba and Plateau? Guy stop writing bullshyte

So it has come to this? No Nigeria can't continue like this.No way!

Fake ness I saw this pic on nairaland before .

oooduancalmdown:

Don't be ignorant. Do you know Jonathan won Taraba and Plateau? Guy stop writing bullshyte

ignorant abt what?



didn't dey vote for change?


so wat r u now saying
.
don't u quote me if u don't av meaniful tin to say



rubish