8th November, 2024
Gunmen attacked and killed three youths in Rakok village of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State on Wednesday.
This was revealed in a statement by the Berom Youths Moulders Association’s National President Dalyop Mwantiri, who said the youths were murdered when they were carrying out their businesses in the community.
The association condemned the attack which has been reoccurring in the area with a call on security agencies to
Mwantiri said, “The recurrence of continued killings, ambushes, assault on women, willful destruction and mass harvest of corn and other crops belonging to Berom native inhabitants by Fulani militants and criminal gangs in and around Barkin Ladi, Riyom and part of Jos South Local Government Areas as well as parts of Plateau State should be stemmed with corresponding military action to avoid degeneration of the situation.
“The Berom Youths Moulder Association (BYM), therefore, calls on security agents, especially Operation Safe Haven to, as a matter of urgency, crackdown on the aggressions daily perpetrated so as not to allow the aforementioned areas and plateau state at large is a theatre of bloodshed as witnessed in the past.”