From Our Correspondent
Three persons have been confirmed dead and two others injured, as unknown gunmen attacked Rakok village in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.
This was confirmed in a statement signed by Berom Youths Moulders Association.
According to the statement, the victims, all youths, were gruesomely murdered while going about their businesses in the community.
The association condemned the attack which has been reoccurring in the area with a call on security agencies to address the breach and destruction of farm produce.
“The recurrence of continued killings, ambushes, assault on women, willful destruction and mass harvest of corn and other crops belonging to Berom native inhabitants by Fulani militants and criminal gangs in and around Barkin Ladi, Riyom and part of Jos South Local Government Areas, as well as parts of Plateau State should be stemmed with corresponding military action to avoid degeneration of the situation.
“Berom Youths Moulder Association, BYM, therefore, calls on security agents, especially Operation Safe Haven to, as a matter of urgency, crackdown on the aggressions daily perpetrated so as not to allow the aforementioned areas and Plateau State at large be a theatre of bloodshed as witnessed in the past,” the group said.
The group appealed for investigation and subsequent arrest of the perpetrators and compensation for massive crop destruction and harvest, as well as motorcycles stolen recently within the general area including as medical support to the injured.
Meanwhile, the police and Operation Safe Haven are yet to issue any statement on the recent attack.
