Tears flowed freely when the Zike community of Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State laid to rest the 51 victims of the recent heinous attacks on the area.
The victims were gunned down early yesterday when the perpetrators stormed the village and started shooting sporadically, leading to scores of deaths in what has become a recurring incident in the state, reports Channels TV.
At the solemn event, members of the community recalled how the incident happened, describing it as “disheartening”.
“I can tell you the situation is very disheartening,” a community leader, Davidson Malison, said, adding that “we are still searching for more corpses.
“Something needs to be done to put an end to this,” Davidson said.
For a women leader, Mary Dikwa, the situation has gone out of hand.
“They have been killing us in this our community, and several times, they will come and attack us,” the Irigwe women leader said.
“They have been coming and killing, killing us every time. We are tired of this killing. Enough is enough. Our children are dying, our husbands are dying. Our crops have been razed down by these Fulani herdsmen,” she added.
Yesterday’s carnage came despite reassurances from government authorities and less than two weeks after a similar dastardly killing left over 50 people dead and several others nursing injuries.
Irked by the recurrent deadly attacks on the state, President Bola Tinubu ordered security agencies to go after the killers, describing the latest wave of assault on the North-Central state as devastating.
“I have instructed security agencies to thoroughly investigate this crisis and identify those responsible for orchestrating these violent acts,” the president said in a statement by his spokesman Bayo Onanuga. “We cannot allow this devastation and the tit-for-tat attacks to continue. Enough is enough.”
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