Five persons have been reportedly killed in a fresh attack on Thursday night in the Kogul community in the Panyam District of the Mangu local government area of Plateau State.
This is one in a series of attacks which have left no fewer than a dozen people dead and about 10 people injured in the last five days.
A local of Kogul Ephraim Manji from Kogul revealed this, adding some others were wounded and many houses set ablaze in Kogul by gunmen.
“When the militia arrived in the community at about 09:00 pm on Thursday, they started shooting in different directions and people were running, at the end, five people were confirmed dead and many houses were burnt.”
Manji lamented that “security agencies couldn’t do anything to make arrests and bring to an end the continuing attack on innocent farmers.”
However, on Friday morning, the attack spread to neighboring Washna, Diding, Jannnaret, Dumulong and Changal in Mangu LGA as houses were set ablaze.
Spokespersons of the State Police Command and Operation Safe Haven, OpSH keeping the peace in the State could not confirm the development as none of them responded to phone calls as at the time of this report.
The Special Adviser to Governor Caleb Mutfwang on Security, Brig-Gen. Gakji Shipi rtd said, “We have had discussions to have a good handle on the matter, houses were being burnt, streets blocked” and he assured that actions are being taken to address the situation.
