Internally
displaced women and children gather at an IDP camp in the Garga Village in the
Kanam Local Government Area of the Plateau state on April 12, 2022, after their
houses were burnt down in the Kukawa Village during an attack by bandits. –
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed on April 12, 2022, there would be no mercy for
those behind the killings of more than a hundred people in a series of attacks
in central Nigeria. Gunmen raided and ransacked a group of villages there,
local sources said, in one of the worst attacks this year blamed on heavily
armed criminal gangs. Condemning what he called the “heinous” killings, Buhari
promised that the perpetrators would receive “no mercy”. (Photo by AFP)
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq, Wednesday said the attacks on five communities in Plateau state, by armed bandits on Monday displaced over 4800 women and children.
The communities are Kyaram, Gyambau, Dungur, Kukawa, Shuwaka villages under Garga District were attacked by armed bandits on Monday while scores were reportedly killed during the mayhem.
Farouq said the development was reported to the ministry by the Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) North Central Zonal office Jos, Mr Eugene Nyelong after profiling and assessment of victims.
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