Four members
of a family were Wednesday massacred in Taraba state by the rampaging herdsmen.
A 9-month old toddler, however, survived the attack, an eye-witness said.
Police Commissioner, David Akinremi, who confirmed the attack and killings,
said, the incident, took place in Bikka village of Takum local government area,
the home of Governor Darius Ishaku and former Defence Minister Theophilus
Danjuma.
The killing
comes 11 days after Danjuma indicted the armed forces of “colluding” with the
killers, asking Nigerians to arm themselves and balance the terror, otherwise
they will all die one by one.
According to The Nation,
the pictures of those murdered -a Kuteb-Jukun man and his wife with two of
their kids, which went viral on the social media, looked gory, with multiple
machete cuts.
The Taraba police
commissioner described the killers as “unknown gunmen.”
“There is no confirmation
yet, as to who they (the killers) are, and their motive.
“But no item seen to be
stolen,” he told The Nation, adding that the killers struck at 1:00am.
Hon. Shiban Tikare, the
Chairman of Takum local government council, also confirmed the killing of the
four members of a family in a night attack.
Shiban disclosed that a
nine-month-old baby, however, “mysterious” survived the attack.
“The attackers invaded the
village at night and slaughtered four members of a family who were deep asleep.
“We heard gunshots around
1:00 am along Takum -Ussa road. While we were making efforts to mobilise
policemen to the area, we heard sporadic gunshots at Mbikka Central, a
community just at the outskirt of the town.
“By the time we got there,
four people were slaughtered like chickens – a man, his wife and two children.
“A baby mysteriously
survived the attack. The attackers whom we suspect to be Fulani herdsmen also
attacked Basam, a village close to Rtd. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma’s
farmhouse, setting the entire village ablaze,” he said.
Shiban lamented that the
killings were going on in the area, in spite of the extension of Exercise Ayem
A Kpatuma (Cat Race) by the federal government.
According to him, instead
of combing the villages to flush out the attackers, the army was busy
brutalising his people in the town, adding that his people were disappointed
with the exercise whom he said was not yielding the desired results.
Police spokesman, David
Misal, an ASP, said the casualty figure was still not clear,“but four bodies
were recovered.”
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