Fulanis Have Killed 50 Residents, Burnt 254 Houses – Kaduna Monarch Cries Out

THE Paramount Ruler of Atyap Chiefdom, often known as ‘Agwatyap’, Sir Dominic Yahaya, has raised the alarm over sustained Fulani assaults which have claimed over 50 lives of villagers beneath his area which embrace Zango-Kataf in Southern Kaduna inside a month.

The killings, the monarch mentioned, included closely pregnant girls and youngsters, claiming additionally that 254 homes and 7 church buildings had been destroyed by the herdsmen in the course of the sustained assaults.

Yahaya said these whereas addressing a press convention in Kaduna, the state capital, on Monday.

Whereas expressing grave concern over the killings, the Agwatyap maintained that his area is now beneath siege, warning that the assaults had reached “an excessive peak of provocation virtually past management.”

In line with him, the assaults have compelled the natives who’re predominantly farmers out of their land and may now not go to farm.

Yahaya added that no fewer than 15,000 natives had been now on the internally displaced camps within the space, and referred to as on each the state and federal governments to come back to the aide of the displaced villagers.

He additionally appealed to safety operatives to undertake excessive measures towards containing the unwarranted and unprovoked assaults throughout the Atyap chiefdom.

This was simply as he referred to as on the Federal Authorities to accord conventional rulers constitutional roles geared toward checking the frequent assaults of their domains throughout the nation.

The monarch mentioned, “Saturday, September 11 was one other black day in Atyap Chiefdom when gunmen struck once more, killing Reverend Silas Ali inside the neighborhood of Zango City settlement in Atyap Chiefdom of Zangon-Kataf LGA of Kaduna State.

“And the next day, Sunday, September 12, suspected herdsmen invaded the group of Apyiah Ajiim, few hundred metres from the spot of Saturday’s assault, killing 12 folks in one other spherical of recurring assaults on the Atyap group. The victims embrace six girls (two had been closely pregnant), three males and three kids.

“I want to passionately enchantment to the federal and state governments to come back to the help of these homeless peasants whom, not fewer than 15,000 of them at the moment are in Internally Displaced Individuals camps, by offering succour significantly within the space of constructing supplies to allow them re-erect buildings to return to their communities.”