Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen Saturday night attacked
Etogi community, Gbara ward, in Mokwa local government area of Niger state
killing 21 people. Witnesses said the attack was said to be as a result of an
earlier disagreement between some Fulani youth and members of the affected
community, which resulted in the death of herder.
According to an account, the herders who maintained a
settlement near the community were offered land to farm on the agreement that
certain percentage of the proceed goes to the village head.
It was learnt that disagreement ensued when the
herders failed to remit the agreed percentage this year, while claiming that
the land in question now belongs to them.
Irked by the death of one them, the herders were said to
have reached out for support from their kinsmen elsewhere and launched an
attack on the community mosque, when Muslim faithful were observing their early
morning prayers.
Malam Mairo Mohammed said that the
attackers killed everybody in the mosque, including the Imam.
Women and children who were woken by the commotion were said
to have fled in different direction with some of them sustaining injuries in
the process.
The state police command public relation officer, DSP Bala
Elkana confirmed the report said 20 people were killed during an early morning
prayers.
He said the attack was a reprisal to an earlier killing of a
herder by the villagers. The killing of a herder was managed but it appears
they were not satisfied and decided to retaliate, DSP Elkana stated.
According to him eight people sustained various degrees of
injuries during the attack and a recuperating in a nearby hospital.
He however mobile policemen have been deployed to the
trouble community, while Department of the State Security Service and
officers if the command’s Criminal Investigation Department were also on ground
to keep peace.
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