Not less than 45 Persons have been confirmed killed and many others injured after an attack on Zike Kimakpa community in Kwall District of Irigwe Chiefdom, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.
The incident, which occurred late Sunday night left the affected community with properties destroyed.
Witnesses said gunmen suspected to be herders reportedly attacked the community, Sunday night, burning buildings and shooting sporadically.
Danjuma Dickson Auta, the Secretary General of the Irigwe Development Association (IDA), who confirmed the attack in an interview with newsmen said over 45 bodies and counting had so far been recovered.
According to him, the scale of the violence suggests a well-planned and coordinated assault on the community.
Meanwhile the Plateau state Government has condemned in strong terms another unprovoked attack by gunmen on Zike Kimakpa community of Kwall district Miango, Bassa local government council of the state.
The commissioner of information and communication Hon Joyce Ramnap, who spoke to correspondents on phone, said the attack is one too many and these series of attacks pose an existential threat to the lives and livelihoods of the peace-loving people of the state.
“It is sad that in less than two weeks after our people were killed in Bokkos local government, this sad incident is reoccurring in another community in Bassa local government.”
She described the attack as another attempt to puncture the peace that has gradually returned to the state.
She maintained that the attacks are provocative, but called on the peaceful people of the state particularly in the attacked community to remain calm and equally vigilant.
The Commissioner emphasized that the Governor Mutfwang administration is determined to deal decisively with anybody or groups found culpable in attacking innocent persons in the state.
She advised against reprisals and urged security operatives to go after the perpetrators of these dastardly acts .
