No fewer
than 100 people, including a pastor and three soldiers, were killed at the
weekend and Monday in Plateau and Taraba states.
Seventy
of the deaths were recorded in Karim Lamido and Takum local government areas of
Taraba State and 30 in two villages at the Barkin Ladi LGA of
Plateau State.
It was
learnt that suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded Vat and Zakupang ,
killing Pastor Luka Gwom of the Church of Christ in Nation and 29 others in the
early hours of Monday.
Spokesman
for the Special Task Force, Ikedichi Iweha, told our correspondent
in Jos that the herdsmen took the action following the theft of
about 400 of their cows. More than 300 of the stolen
cows, according to him, were later found and returned to their owners.
He
explained that the cows were stolen in Jos East and taken to
Barakin Ladi, a development that made the herdsmen to launch the attacks.
The
Chairman of Barkin Ladi LGA, Emmanuel Lomang, who also confirmed
the incident to journalists in Jos, said the
attackers killed 17 people in Vat and 13 others in
Zakupang, where the Minister of Water Resources, Serah Ochekpe, hails from.
Lomang
decried what he called “incessant attacks” on his
people and challenged the security agencies, especially the Special
Task Force to arrest the perpetrators.
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