Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has ordered security agencies to arrest those involved in the killing of four people, following a fresh attack on Mgbrazongo village in Bassa Local Government Area of the state.
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The Irigwe Development Association has decried the withdrawal of the military from communities in Iregwe chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Voter’s apathy is being recorded in the ongoing by-election for Pengana State constituency in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau.
Stakeholders from Miango community in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau say forgiveness and trauma healing will end the incessant killings in the area.
A Judicial Commission of Inquiry said it had identified 115 persons believed to be responsible for the bloody clashes that recently engulfed Dekina, Omala and Bassa Local Government areas of Kogi State.
As Plateau residents elect chairmen and councillors into 14 of the 17 local governments, voters in some areas have decried the late arrival of electoral materials at many polling units.
Stakeholders from Iregwe and Fulani communities in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau have advised residents of the area to be tolerant and have mutual respect for one another in order to end the incessant killings in their communities.
Education Secretaries in Plateau local governments are to organise teaching and counseling lessons for school children in Internally Displaced Persons to cover grounds lost because of their displacement.
The traditional ruler of Mozum community in the area, Alhaji Khalid Bukar, told newsmen in Lokoja that the violence has spread, by Sunday afternoon, to Ozugbe and Biroko, two villages under his domain.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ali Janga, told newsmen that the dead included five residents of the community while five of the armed bandits were killed during a cross fire with security agents.
Terna Tyopev, the spokesman of the Police Command in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos that the incident happened at about 5:30 p.m on Monday.
The command’s Spokesman, ASP Terna Tyopev, told newsmen in Jos that the incident, which occurred on Thursday night, also left eight persons injured and 20 houses completely razed.
A source from the village told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday that three men were attacked by the armed men that used machetes and cutlasses.