Herdsmen Kill Another 2 In Ryom, Plateau State

…As Jang urges Gov Lalong to return home

BY CHAMBERLAIN ODEY, JOS – The peace in Plateau State was again disturbed on Sunday night with the brutal killing of two persons in Wereng village of Riyom Local Government Area.

This is just as the immediate past Governor of the State, Senator Jonah David Jang urged Governor Simon Lalong to cut short his prolonged globetrotting and return to tackle worsening security situation in the State.  

Though details are yet to be made available by security agencies, local sources confirmed that two persons, all males, were killed on Sunday.

According to reports, the duo were allegedly ambushed and dastardly murdered without their village people knowing only for their lifeless bodies to be discovered on Monday morning.

This incident is coming barely five days after nine persons were gruesomely murdered in an ambush in Rim village that left some others wounded within the same Riyom Local Government Area.

Lamenting the growing insecurity; organized attacks and killings in different villages across the state in recent times, Senator Jang called on the Governors of the Middle Belt states of Nigeria to rise to the occasion and resist a clear plan by some foreign marauders to extinguish the local indigenous tribes in the region in order to take over their landed ancestral heritage.

Jang urged the governors to uniformly put the anti-open grazing law in place, and raise other necessary policy frontiers to protect their heritage and curb herdsmen bestiality that has caused unnecessary loss of lives and spilling of innocent blood.

Jang, who is the senator representing Plateau North senatorial zone in the National Assembly, commiserated with the people over the attacks and killings.

In a statement signed by his media consultant, Clinton Garuba, Jang expressed his condolences to the families that lost their relations and loved ones in the series of attacks.

Beginning from Ancha village in Bassa LGA to Barkin Ladi, back to Bassa, then to Riyom, and Riyom again, Plateau is gradually experiencing two months of organized attacks smacking of attempts at ethnic extinction, as this is the beginning of the fifth week of Governor Lalong’s absence from the state.