A fresh attack in Manyi-Mashin village, Zamandabo ward, in Atyap
Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State has
led to the death of a 60-year-old widow, a mother of 6 children and
a 56-year-old man.
Information gathered revealed that the attack took place in the
early hours of Friday, 11th September 2020.
The development was disclosed in a statement released by the
National Publicity Officer, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU,
Luka Binniyat.
Binniyat in the statement stated that suspected Fulani militias
burnt down almost all the houses in the village, looting and
carting away valuables.
The statement explained that though men of Operation Safe Haven
promptly responded, the militia fled before their arrival.
Recall that Fulani militia on the 8th of September, 2020 laid
ambush on three Atyap youths from Atakmawei village in Zamandabo
Ward in Atyap Chiefdom.
The three young farmers were said to have gone to work in their
Sugar cane farm about a kilometre from their village.
It said that armed herdsmen came from hiding and struck,
descending on them with daggers and machetes.
Anthony Magaji, 25, a final year HND student with Nuhu Bamali
Polytechnic, Zaria, was hacked down, axing his neck and head with
macabre wounds which killed him instantly.
Isaac Thomas, 24, also an OND student of the same school,
managed to escape with life-threatening injuries and is now under
intensive care in a hospital, while the third escaped with less
injury.
The statement further explained, “Meanwhile, we have
received complains of farmers in Gora axis of Atyap Chiefdom, who
say that Fulani men occasionally sneak into their farms and destroy
large swaths of growing food crops, thus leaving them with a bleak
prospect of hunger in the near future. All these gory development
is taking place after a much-publicized peace deal was reached
between natives of Atyap Chiefdom on one side and their long time
settled Hausa and Fulani representatives on 23rd August 2020 in
Unguwan Wakili, close to Zangon Kataf town.”
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It added that on the 8th of September, 2020, an attack was
launched again by Fulani militias at Kitsarapang village in Kizachi
Chiwo of Kizachi community, Tsam Chiefdom in Kauru local government
area, stressing that the attack claimed the life of Emmanuel David
Yohanna, 13, leaving two persons grievously with gunshots namely
Sunday Zango Stephen, 48 and Zakka John, 23 who are now receiving
treatment at a hospital in Jos.
The statement explained that three decomposing corpses were
found on Kaduna-Abuja highway on Sunday, 6th September 2020 who
were among four persons that were abducted during a brazen
operation last week at Maraban Rido, a suburb of Kaduna in Chikun
local government area all in Southern Kaduna, who were killed after
ransoms were paid.
The union requested the Federal Government, through Operation
Safe Haven, under the Command of Major General Chukwu Emeka
Okonkwo, to expedite action and bring to book all the Fulani
militia that are currently occupying 101 Southern Kaduna
Communities in four of our LGAs.
“We have furnished the world with the details and we are
happy to note that eight of the displaced communities in Zangan
District in Kaura LGA are now returning home as a result of more
presence of men of OPSH. We are appealing to our youths to shun all
forms of provocation and conduct themselves in manners that will
not make them fall short of the law, not compromising their rights
for self-preservation under the law,” the union appealed
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