From Jude Owuamanam, Jos
Five people have been killed and several others wounded as gunmen attacked Kimakpa village of Kwall district in Bassa local government of Plateau state.
The incidence occurred on Monday at about 12 midnight
A statement by ty secretary Irigwe Development Association ((IDA) Sam Jugo, said that the villagers woke up to another carnage in the early hours of Monday.
He said, “We woke up this morning to another sad one. In middle of the night of 2nd June, 2024 criminal invaders attacked and killed 5 of our residents in cold blood at Kimakpa.
“The criminal elements who came in their numbers with heavy weaponry killed A pastor of Assemblies of God church Kwall Pastor Dauda Dalyop.
Jugu named those killed to include Mrs Chummy Dauda, 57 years, Mr. Chwe Ajuhs, 26 years, Mr. Joshua Kusa, 45 years and Mrs Rikwe Doro 43 years old.
He added that two persons were severely injured and are currently undergoing treatment at home, stressing that troops of Operation Safe Haven were instantly mobilized to avert further genocide.
“There’s uneasy calm in Kwall district as at now. The sad incidence came just two days after some disgruntled elements ambushed some Rigwe youth on motorcycle while returning from Gero mining site and killed instantly Mr Irmiya Musa Timbi and severely injuring one other.
“We use this medium to further appeal for calm to enable the security agencies carry out their investigations. We should upscale our vigilance, avoid night movements to distant destinations and suppress the urge for reprisal or taking the law in our hands and give the security agencies the benefit of the doubt. In as much as we are quite saddened by this condemnable incidence , we cannot afford to aggravate the situation by seeking self help at this time.
“We call on the security agencies to do the needful by fishing out the culprits so that the affected will see justice being served as that’s the only way to restore the confidence of our people”
Efforts to reach spokesman of the Police, DSP. Alfred Alabo and and his OPSH counterpart, Major Samson Khazom,STF, were unfruitful as they could not respond to the calls.
The latest incident is coming less than three weeks after OPSH inaugurated a 17-man Peace Committee to end the spate of killings in Irigwe Land and the entire Bassa LGA and environs.
The committee replaced the 36 Man Joint Committee inaugurated on 11 Sep 21 to work out modalities to achieve peace and reconciliation between the various tribes in Bassa, Jos North and South as well as Riyom Local Government Areas of Plateau State.
The 17-Man Implementation Committee, our correspondent gathered, is to implement the recommendations of the 36-man Committee as it affects Irigwe Land, which became redundant over time.