A survivor of a herdsmen attack in Plateau State, Asabe Moses, has narrated how the criminal herders attacked her family while they were sleeping at night, killing her husband and three children.
Speaking through an interpreter on AriseTV News Night on Friday, Asabe narrated how the attackers stormed her house and killed her family.
“She said that she was sleeping in the night, and Fulani herdsmen came in the night and were killing them and burning their houses,” the translator said.
The translator recounted her statement on how she knew they were Fulani herdsmen, saying:
“That night that they came, they were speaking their dialect. After speaking their dialect, they said, ‘Where is your God? We are going to kill you today. We are going to burn your house.’ They killed her three sons—one was 14 years old, one was 10, and the last one just two years.”
They were also said to have killed her husband and burned their house.
This development comes amid an escalating crisis across the country.
In the first week of April, the death toll from a series of violent attacks in the Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State had risen to 52.
Among the victims were five children, who were reportedly burned to ashes in Hurti village.
Other fatalities included 11 in Ruwi, four in Manguna, and one in Daffo village.
The Bokkos Cultural Development Council (BCDC) Vanguard, through its Chairman, Farmasum Fuddang, confirmed that some individuals remain missing due to the attacks.
Fuddang emphasised that the search for missing persons was ongoing, particularly in the Hurti and Mbar communities.
The council urged residents to stay vigilant as search and rescue operations continue.
In response to the violence, the Plateau State Government condemned the attacks and called for calm.
The Commissioner for Information and Communication, Joyce Ramnap, also voiced concern over the resurgence of violence, describing it as a significant setback to recent efforts aimed at restoring peace and stability in the region.
“Security agencies have deployed and dominated these areas to ensure normalcy returns at the shortest possible time,” Ramnap stated in a press release.
“Additionally, important arrests have been made by the security agencies, and this will hopefully help in stemming the tide of this ugly situation,” the statement read.
Insecurity remains a persistent issue not only in Plateau but also in other states like Borno, Benue, Zamfara, Kwara, and Enugu, among others.
Despite promises from President Bola Tinubu’s administration to improve security, Nigerians continue to mourn the loss of lives and property caused by the actions of criminal herders, bandits, and terrorists.
