Less than 72 hours after five persons were mauled down in an evening attack on a school premises in Vom, near Jos, another four persons have been confirmed dead as a result of an early morning attack in Shekan village in Bassa Local government of Plateau State.
The attack is coming less than 48 hours after the natives and the Fulani pastoralists signed a peace deal in Bassa
Our correspondent gathered that in the latest attack, an aged woman, and her husband were beheaded by some unknown assailants, even as their two grandchildren were killed.
The assailants who allegedly stormed the village early Saturday morning were said to have gone with the heads of the victims.
Shekan village, a Berom settlement is a border settlement between Jos South and Bassa Local government areas
The state Police commissioner, Abdelrahman Akano, who confirmed the incident, however, said he suspected that the action was the handiwork of ritualists.
Akano said, “This particular killing has nothing to do with the normal Jos crises or attacks by Fulani herdsmen. It is purely a criminal act because no cattle was rustled in the attack. These criminals can be said to be ritual killers because they beheaded them and went away with their heads, we only found their headless bodies somewhere in the bush.”
He said, “The village is under Bassa Local government, not Jos South because when the police picked their bodies and wanted to take them to Jos south, the villagers said the community is under Bassa Local government though it is a border settlement.”
The police commissioner appealed to the people of Bassa Local government to maintain calm and should not link the incident to attack by Fulani.
“There is an existing peace agreement between the Fulanis and Irigwe tribes inhabiting Bassa local government that will continue to live in peace. The peace agreement was signed just last week and I don’t want the people to abandon the peace agreement because of this incident because it has nothing to do with Jos crises”
The police commissioner said he had deployed policemen to the area to track down the suspected ritualists.
Source: The Punch
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