By Ebere Inyama
(Jos, Plateau State) Governor Caleb Mutfwang says the recent attack on Jos South County of Plateau state which claimed the lives of 28 people took him unawares.
“The recent attacks in Plateau came as a surprise”, Mutfwang said on Wednesday 8 April 2026, during an interview on Arise Television.
“Over the last 10 – 11 months, we had attained peace, particularly in the city of Jos”, he continued.
“We bragged that Jos was the safest city in northern Nigeria.
“We didn’t anticipate the attack”, Mutfwang added.
Alarm raised 4 days before attacks
A publication on TruthNigeria’s website on 25 March 2026 raised alarm over “potential coordinated attacks on several villages in Jos, Plateau sate ahead of the Easter celebrations.
And, on 19 March 2026, American missionary Judd Saul, warned publicly of possible terrorist attacks in Jos ahead of the Easter
Twenty Christians were killed by Fulani terrorists in Nigeria’s Middle Belt less than a week after Saul previously warned of imminent terror threats in Jos, Plateau State during the last Christmas season. Nigerian authorities had dismissed the alert as false and failed to act.
In the same vein, an attack in Barkin Ladi County (Local Government Area) of Plateau state on Tuesday 16 December, 2025 followed repeated warnings by TruthNigeria, including a terror alert issued three hours before the incident.
Ignoring Terror Alerts: Acts of complicity?
In January, 2024, a coalition of Plateau State citizens demanded the liquidation of the Special Military Task Force known as Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), alleging that the task force, comprising the military, the police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), are complicit in the 2023 Christmas attacks which resulted in the killing of 200 innocent civilians across 17 rural communities in the Bokos and Barkin Ladi counties of Plateau state.
Earlier on 19 February 2018, Nigerian security forces “failed to act” on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards Dapchi, in Yobe State, the day 110 schoolgirls were abducted from Government Girls Science and Technical College in Dapchi, according to Amnesty International.
On 5 February, 2026, terrorists attacked Woro village and neighbouring communities in Kaiama County of Kwara State for nearly 10 hours before security forces arrived, leaving scores dead, despite the fact that distress calls to authorities were made shortly after the attack began, according to a report by ARISE News.
Long before the deadly attack took place at Yelewata in June 2025, the local leaders in the community, which is mostly Christian, raised the alarm over the influx of gunmen into the area, according to a report by The New York Times.
In December 2024, six months before 200 residents of Yelewata were killed, the leader of a farmers’ association, Gbongbon Dennies, sent a letter to the head of Nigeria’s paramilitary agency in which he warned of a mass influx of “dangerous, notorious and deadly bandits.” He listed the names of the people he said were directing the attacks, and pleaded for “urgent intervention.”
The warnings reportedly reached the Nigerian government authorities, yet nothing was done to prevent the attack.
TruthNigeria Commended for Terror Alerts
In June, 2025, Fulani Islamist militia unleashed a devastating attack on two counties in Benue state, killing 41 Christian residents, according to TruthNigeria.
But “many lives were saved by advance warning of the attack published on the TruthNigeria website”, said Morgan Oche, an Elder from Edikwu-Olegijamu, a community near the town at the epicenter of the attack.
“I was on internet, and I saw a Security Alert from TruthNigeria website of ongoing attack on our neighboring community of Edikwu-Ankpali,” Oche had said.
“I alerted our people, and they quickly deserted their homes and relocated to Ugbokpo, Apa Local Government (county) headquarter. When the Fulani terrorists came to our community after attacking Edikwu-Ankpali, they saw no one to kill and they left,” he added.
Also narrating his experience, Steven Abaji, an Elder from Naka, Gwer-West County attributed the low number of casualties from the attack unleashed by the Fulani militia on Naka town to prompt response to TruthNigeria’s warnings.
“The Security Alert by TruthNigeria was shared to different platforms, and we informed our people to stay indoors”, Abaji said.
“More than 50 Fulani terrorists who invaded our town should have killed many, but they succeeded in killing only three”, he added.
Ebere Inyama reports on conflict for TruthNigeria.
