The bandits who attacked several villages across three local government areas of Plateau State on December 24 and 25, 2023, leaving no fewer than 195 persons dead, have again notified villagers of another attack.
This was as the Middle Belt Forum, which confirmed the impending attack, accused the military of complacency.
According to the MBF, the bandits have sent a letter to residents of Pushit community in Mangu LGA to await their visit on December 29, 2023 (today).
Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Thursday, the Deputy National President of the MBF, Stanley Kavwam, said the latest notice was served by the bandits like they did before the previous ones, with the military doing nothing about it.
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Kavwam, who alleged that the military was aware of the identity of the attackers and their hideouts, said: “While I was driving down from Jos to this place, I received a call.
“A letter was sent to my own village by the terrorists that the attackers were going to invade on December 29.
“In all the attacks that were orchestrated, there was a letter to that effect that was dropped by an anonymous person, intimating the residents of Mangu LGA that there would be attacks.
“They (military) received about 37 distress calls.
“That is Operation Safe Haven or the Joint Task Force.
“About 37 distress calls.
“Yet nothing was done.
“All the casualties that we are talking about are in a community inhabited by Christians and the security forces know the attackers, they even know their hideouts for two decades.
“They know where they orchestrate the attacks because that autonomous community called Manga is at the foot of Bokkos hills, bordering Wamba in Nasarawa State to the south.
“It’s this autonomous community these attacks are orchestrated from, just the same way we have in the Mandara hills in Borno State.
“For instance, the military relocated an entire community of over 11,000 people, leaving the entire Dangoa Road free for the terrorists to operate.
“Section 14b of the 1999 constitution as amended stipulates that the welfare and security of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.
“These attacks could last for as long as 12 to 24 hours and there is no security presence whatsoever.
“Pushit community is in Mangu LGA of Plateau State.
“A letter was sent today (yesterday) to Pushit that they are going to attack on the 29th.”
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