Standup9ja - Gunmen kill 5 herders, rustle 500 cattle in
Nasarawa
Some gunmen suspected to be among those displaced from
Zamfara State have killed five and injured seven Fulani herders and rustled
over 500 cattle in Udege area, Nasarawa LGA of Nasarawa state.
The gunmen had allegedly seized some mountains in the area
where they took and hid kidnapped victims.
The state chairman of Miyyati Allah Cattle Breeders
Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Muhammed Husseini, who spoke to newsmen
yesterday on the development, said, “In the last one week the criminals had
killed five Fulani herders in separate attacks, injured seven others and
rustled over 500 cattle. Only last Monday they attacked Gidan Kwano town,
Mararaba Udege where they injured three herders and rustled 252 cattle.”
Husseini said the MACBAN officials and the state
commissioner of police had visited the areas to calm down the victims of the
attacks.
One of the victims, Bello Ahmadu told newsmen that dozens of
rustlers stormed their village midnight. “They rustled all 174 cattle of our
family. When some of the family members tried to resist them, they shot them.”
State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Sadiq Bello, who
confirmed the incident, said the command
had deployed a crack team to the affected areas to tackle the challenges.
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