Reports say at least 2 people have been killed and two others declared missing in fresh attacks on Southern Kaduna
The latest attacks have threatened the hope of an early return of peace to the much-troubled southern part of Kaduna state.
Senator Danjuma Tella Laah, representing Kaduna South district, in a statement on Sunday, January 8, in Kaduna, confirmed the incident and lamented the latest attack and killings by the herdsmen.Laah said:“Today, as we observed the national mourning day ordered by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) over the unabated killings of law-abiding citizens of Nigeria in southern Kaduna, and the forcible taking of their lands, I wish to sadly inform again that two persons were killed yesterday (Saturday) by same marauding Fulani herdsmen terrorists.
“The death of these two men identified as Ephraim Ezekiel, 19, and Joshua Ladi,41, occurred after an almost 24-hour gun battle between the terrorists on onehand and the police officers as well as local vigilantes as the Fulani terrorists tried to overrun a village called Tsonje.
“I have been reliably informed that after the terrorists retreated to their well-known camp behind Pasakori community at the foot of Kagoro mountain, a few kilometers away, two other persons have been declared missing.”The Guardian reports that the latest attacks have threatened the hope of an early return of peace to the much-troubled southern part of Kaduna state.
Meanwhile,five farmers have been gruesomely killedin separate attacks on two communities in Delta state by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Southern City News reports that the attacks which occurred in Abraka and Obiaruku in Ethiope East and Ukwuani local government area of the state respectively were believed to have beencarried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
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