The Police in Taraba State have said that 21 people were killed in the deadly clash between the Jukun and some Fulani herdsmen in Wukari on Thursday. Our correspondent gathered that other neighboring villages in the Council such as, Gindin Doruwa and Sukundi communities have also joined the fray as report indicated that the clashes have spilled over to those areas. Unnamed Red Cross sources said that they counted more than 47 corpses brought to Wukari General Hospital. The same source had put the death at 25, while the police said that only seven people died from the clashes. An official of the Nigeria Red Cross who didn’t want his name in print confirmed told newsmen when the Stats acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, visited the scene on Friday that more than 47 bodies were taken to the hospital while villages said that 105 others have not bee accounted for. Police Public relation officer. Joseph Kwaji, an Assistant Superintendent of Police told journalists at Wukari that 21 were killed, 24 arrested, 34 injured, and 99 houses razed but declined comment on the missing figures. Kwaji also said that two units of anti riot Police squad drafted from different parts of the state have been deployed to Wukari to beef up security in the area, adding that those arrested are presently in police custody and .would soon be charged to court. Umar who expressed shock at the extent of destruction in the area, sued for calm, noting that the level of destruction was enormous. While on a visit to the palace of the paramount ruler, the Aku-Uka, Dr. Shekarau Angyu Masa Ibi Kuvyo II, Umar implored the people to put an end to the killings. The Acting Governor, while pleading with the youths to embrace each other, further reminded them of government good intention to provide jobs for the unemployed youths so that they would not be used to perpetuate violence. Earlier, the royal majesty the Aku-uka and the council’s caretaker chairman Honorable Manasseh Zando had appealed to state and Federal Government to draft more security personnel’s to the area. They expressed fear that the situation might deteriorate if urgent steps were not taken to contain the warring youths
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:57:17 +0000
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