Plateau State in central Nigeria is in the news again following the attack on Nkienzha village in Bassa county on Sunday night which led to the murder of four persons.
The Nigerian media reports that two other locals were severely clubbed with machetes during the attack. Among those killed in the attack were Gawan Zhwe, a 50-year-old farmer; Lydia Yakubu, 48 years old and Nuhu Yakubu, 23 years old.
The attack is the latest in a wave of violence against Christians that has hit Plateau in the past two months, the worst-hit communities being Bokkos, Mangu and Barkin Ladi.
The blood-thirsty Fulani terrorists usually strike at night when locals are already in their beds.
No fewer than 30 communities have been overrun by the bandit militia in Plateau, said the chairman of the Plateau Civil Society Organisation Forum (CSOF), Reverend Chris Damcher. He described the unprovoked attacks as “very sad, unfortunate and unacceptable by any standard.”
“The killings in Plateau started since September 7, 2001. It has since grown into a massacre and a barbaric act of violence, cowardly engineered, which counters every known attitude of a normal human being who believes in the sanctity of human life,” Rev. Damcher added.
—Ezinwanne Onwuka reports for TruthNigeria from Abuja.
