Service Chiefs, Ministers Visit Plateau Over Bandits' Attacks

Two persons were killed in another attack by assailants in Durbi village of Shere district, Jos East local government area.

The attack is coming when the state is yet to recover from the death of over one hundred ninety persons in the Christmas Eve attacks on Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi local government areas of the state.

Transition Implementation Committee Chairman, Markus Nyam, confirmed this on Sunday revealing that the attackers invaded the village on Saturday night and killed a father and his son.

Nyam also said that the efforts of the vigilantes in the community who engaged the assailants resulted in the death of one of the attackers as others fled.

The Joint Security Task Force Operation Safe Haven personnel also responded to the community’s distress call, preventing the attackers from causing more damage.

Shortly afterwards, the service chiefs led by Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa alongside the trio of Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Taoreed Lagbaja, Chief of Air Staff Air Marshall Hassan Abubakar and Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla as well as Minister of State for Defence Bello Muhammed Matawalle visited the affected areas of Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi communities on Sunday morning.

Onboard the Nigerian Air Force plane, the dignitaries landed at the Yakubu Gowon Airport Heipang by 10:10 am.

After that, Matawalle was on ground to take the salute by military officials.

Also in the company of the service chiefs was the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu.

Nearly 200 people died in the attacks that began on the evening of December 23 and lasted through the morning of December 26 wracked by violence for years.

The recent attacks led to nearly 20,000 people, mostly women and children, leaving some 20 villages around Bokkos and Barkin Ladi.

They are now sheltering in 23 camps set up by the Red Cross.

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