In yet another wave of bloodshed, no fewer than 10 innocent residents were gruesomely murdered on Wednesday as armed bandits launched coordinated assaults on five communities in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State.
The attackers, believed to be Fulani-speaking terrorists, struck in broad daylight—moving with military precision across Mangor Tamiso, Daffo, Manguna (Tagai), Hurti, and Tadai—leaving behind a trail of destruction, fear, and shattered families.
This latest onslaught comes barely six days after a similar carnage at Ruwi community, where bandits stormed a wake-keeping ceremony, killing 10 mourners and injuring three others.
The Bokkos Cultural Development Council (BCDC), in a strongly worded statement signed by its chairman, Farmasum Fuddang, condemned the unrelenting attacks and decried what it described as a systematic attempt to displace indigenous people and establish a caliphate by force.
> “In just one week, we have lost over twenty community members due to these marauding terrorists, who are engaged in an ongoing ethnic and religious cleansing of our villages,” Fuddang stated grimly.
He revealed that on April 2nd, the killers moved methodically from one village to another, beginning around noon, executing victims with chilling audacity. Survivors recounted the terror, saying the attackers operated with little resistance and spoke in Fulani dialect throughout the rampage.
While the BCDC acknowledged the swift response of security agencies, it lamented that the recurring nature of these attacks points to a broader failure of intelligence and proactive security intervention.
Fuddang issued a call to action, urging residents not to rely solely on overwhelmed state forces.
> “The people of Bokkos must not allow themselves to be slaughtered like animals or depend exclusively on government security forces, who cannot be everywhere at once,” he declared.
“At the very least, citizens should arm themselves with non-prohibited weapons—to defend, delay, and deter—until help arrives. Anything less could be fatal.”
The Council also called on both state and federal authorities to urgently reinforce security architecture across Plateau’s rural communities, warning that the unchecked violence may soon spiral into a full-blown humanitarian crisis marked by mass displacement and more bloodshed.
With grief mounting and fear spreading, the people of Bokkos are crying out—not just for help, but for justice, safety, and the right to exist on their ancestral land.
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