Published 25th Jan, 2022

By Gabriel Ogunjobi

Three youths from Du village, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, have been killed in an ambush along Kamaru town in Kaduna State.

Chayi Gado, 46, Monday Daro, 33, and Ezekiel Peter, 32, were on a motorcycle when they were shot dead by gunmen on Monday, while Iveh Gah, another youth in the village, suffered gunshot wounds on his leg and stomach.

A source told FIJ that all the victims were natives of Irigwe, an indigenous ethnic group in Plateau. Asked if security officers were not present to secure the volatile district, the source said, “The army’s presence is insignificant in the axis. They came to the scene of the attack last night, but they couldn’t do anything.”

A road in Southern Kaduna — **The road from Kwall district to Kamaru in Southern Kaduna**

In one of the invasions by killer herders across different communities in Bassa between the last week of July and August 2021, Hannatu Joshua Yakubu was killed, leaving her baby, Ruth Sunday, to die of cold at a riverbank in Mianyanga, another village within the Kwall District.

FIJ’s investigation in November had revealed that the route between Kwall and Southern Kaduna, where the assailants reportedly entered from, was unmanned by soldiers, despite recurring attacks in the area.

Gabriel Ubah, the spokesperson of the Plateau State Police Command, and Major Ishaku Takwa, the military information officer for Operation Safe Haven, a special task force (STF) in Plateau, did not answer FIJ’s calls for comments. They also did not respond to texts sent.

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