Some yet-to-be recognized gunmen have killed a 17-year-old herder and 35 cows at Nafan neighborhood in Fan District and Doruwa Babuje in Ropp District of Barkin-Ladi Native Authorities Space of Plateau State.
The Information Company of Nigeria stories that the perpetrators of the crime had been driving on motor cycles once they opened hearth and killed the herder.
One other herder was severely injured throughout incident.
The state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, who condemned the incident, tasked related safety companies to fish out the perpetrators.
He mentioned this in an announcement by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Mr Gyang Bere, on Thursday in Jos.
Mutfwang said that his administration wouldn’t condone any act of lawlessness and killing of harmless and legislation abiding residents.
”We condemn in totality these acts of lawlessness that’s undermining authorities’s effort in entrenching harmonious dwelling amongst one and all within the state.
”My administration will not the tolerate brutal killings of harmless residents both of their farms on in any components of the state whereas pursuing their authentic technique of livelihood.
”I’ve directed the safety companies to hunt and observe down the perpetrators of this heinous crimes and guarantee justice for the victims,” Gyang quoted Mutfwang.
Gyang additional mentioned the governor charged conventional, neighborhood and spiritual leaders, in addition to youths and ladies teams within the affected communities, to affix palms with different stakeholders to revive normalcy.
The governor, who sympathized with the affected households, urged residents of the state to reveal all prison parts inside their communities to face the total wrath of the legislation.
