Youths in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State
yesterday took to the streets brandishing dangerous
weapons and setting ablaze three Fulani communities.
Daily Trust gathered that the unrest was a reaction to the
assassination of the Bokkos community paramount ruler,
Lazarus Agai, the Saf Ron Kulere.
The first class chief, his son, daughter in-law and aide (a
police inspector) were ambushed and killed Monday
evening while they were returning from a farm in Sha
village.
The aggrieved youths yesterday, suspecting that the fatal
attack on the paramount ruler and those with him was
carried out by Fulani herders, burnt the three Fulani
settlements, namely Fokkos, Danan and parts of Kwatas.
The Ardo of Bokkos, Yakubu Dabo Boro, and State Chairman
of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria
(MACBAN), Nuru Muhammad, who spoke to our
correspondent, blamed the burning of Fulani communities to
reports carried by certain media organisations and peace
NGOs that accused Fulani herders of the killing.
Muhammad said men of Operation Safe Haven had
controlled the destructions in Fulani communities but
stressed, “Our homes have been burnt, we have told
security agents that anyone found responsible for this
atrocity whether Fulani or Challa, should face the law.”
The Plateau State Police Public Relations Officer ASP
Tyopev Mathias Terna said investigation into the killing was
on but no arrest had been made.
The representative of Justice Development and Peace
Commission (JDPC) and Islamic Counselling Initiative of
Nigeria (ICIN) in the area, Dan Maren, said insinuations that
the paramount ruler was killed as a result of a tussle over
his seat was not true.
Governor Simon Bako Lalong yesterday said he was pained
by the killing of the traditional ruler and assured citizens
that Government would fish out all enemies of peace in the
state.
Senator Joshua Dariye who represents Plateau-Central in
the National Assembly and who hails from Bokkos, has
called for calm, saying, “It is very confusing and emotions
are running high and nobody has been able to establish a
concrete reason for the killing of this great man. I have been
talking to people to calm down. I can imagine the reaction
from the people; the paramount ruler had been doing all he
could to bring peace to the land.”
yesterday took to the streets brandishing dangerous
weapons and setting ablaze three Fulani communities.
Daily Trust gathered that the unrest was a reaction to the
assassination of the Bokkos community paramount ruler,
Lazarus Agai, the Saf Ron Kulere.
The first class chief, his son, daughter in-law and aide (a
police inspector) were ambushed and killed Monday
evening while they were returning from a farm in Sha
village.
The aggrieved youths yesterday, suspecting that the fatal
attack on the paramount ruler and those with him was
carried out by Fulani herders, burnt the three Fulani
settlements, namely Fokkos, Danan and parts of Kwatas.
The Ardo of Bokkos, Yakubu Dabo Boro, and State Chairman
of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria
(MACBAN), Nuru Muhammad, who spoke to our
correspondent, blamed the burning of Fulani communities to
reports carried by certain media organisations and peace
NGOs that accused Fulani herders of the killing.
Muhammad said men of Operation Safe Haven had
controlled the destructions in Fulani communities but
stressed, “Our homes have been burnt, we have told
security agents that anyone found responsible for this
atrocity whether Fulani or Challa, should face the law.”
The Plateau State Police Public Relations Officer ASP
Tyopev Mathias Terna said investigation into the killing was
on but no arrest had been made.
The representative of Justice Development and Peace
Commission (JDPC) and Islamic Counselling Initiative of
Nigeria (ICIN) in the area, Dan Maren, said insinuations that
the paramount ruler was killed as a result of a tussle over
his seat was not true.
Governor Simon Bako Lalong yesterday said he was pained
by the killing of the traditional ruler and assured citizens
that Government would fish out all enemies of peace in the
state.
Senator Joshua Dariye who represents Plateau-Central in
the National Assembly and who hails from Bokkos, has
called for calm, saying, “It is very confusing and emotions
are running high and nobody has been able to establish a
concrete reason for the killing of this great man. I have been
talking to people to calm down. I can imagine the reaction
from the people; the paramount ruler had been doing all he
could to bring peace to the land.”
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