For their members who lost cattle in an attack on Wednesday in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area’s Nafan Dreji, Fulani groups in Plateau State have seek for compensation.
According to Clusterchannel, a group of gunmen attacked a cattle rearer, killing one and wounding another.
Governor Caleb Mutfwang ordered security services to apprehend the offenders and denounced the event.
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday in Jos, the organisations said that 30 sheep and 104 cows had been killed or taken in the event and urged security personnel to find the animals that had been taken.
The groups read a statement that was signed by Adam Yakubu, the secretary, and Garba Muhammad, the chairman of a coalition of the groups. They urged the authorities to respond to their demand as soon as possible.
“On Tuesday the 5 of March 2024, Abubakar Abdulmumin was brutally attacked and killed, Abdussalam Ibrahim was severely injured and is in critical condition and receiving medical attention in Mainasara Hospital in Barkin Ladi.
“In the attack, 104 cows and 30 sheep were killed, injured and rustled by Berom militia from Nafan and Nyerwei villages in fan district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. The marauding attackers stormed the area at about 3 p.m. on motorcycles and started shooting sporadically while the Fulani herders were grazing.
“As law-abiding citizens, we are calling on the security agencies to arrest and bring to book the perpetrators of these attacks that claimed the lives of innocent Fulani herders, killing and rustling of 175 cows valued at about N105,000,000.00, on average and 30 sheep valued at about N N3,000,000.00, on average,” they said.
“The ugly incidences were reported to the Sector 4 of Operation Safe Haven and Divisional Police Station Barkin Ladi. Our cows and sheep are killed, injured and rustled without any effort to retrieve them or pay compensation to our people to cushion their hardship in this crucial era of worsening economic situation facing the country today.
“Therefore, we are calling on the security agencies to redouble their efforts in retrieving our rustle cattle…” the coalition said.
