Following the killing of a couple who are Secondary school teachers at BECO Comprehensive High School in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau, the Berom Youth Moulders Association (BYM) has called on the state government to ban open grazing.
According to the group who spoke through its National Publicity Secretary, Rwang Tengwong, on Tuesday, open grazing is been used as a ploy to continue unleashing mayhem on citizens and their property.
Additionally, BYM demanded that Fulani militias be declared and treated as terrorists by governments at all levels.
Tengwong said, “The Berom Youths Moulder-Association-BYM is, again, saddened over the invasion of BECO Comprehensive School Kwi, where two staff, Mr and Mrs Rwang Danladi are reportedly shot dead and one Mr Dalyop Emmanuel Ibrahim, the Vice Principal of the School, left seriously injured by some known Fulani armed men alongside suspected bandits elements at about 3:00pm of Monday, 14th August 2023.”
According to the group, staff of the school were holding a meeting to compile the results of students due for release on Friday, 18th August being the school’s ‘Speech and Prize Giving-Day’ when the incident happened.
It was said that the bandits stormed the school premises with their cattle and interrupted the Staff meeting.
“The staff had asked the Fulani to get their cows out of the school environment. But instead of complying, they brought out their arms and opened gunfire at the teachers.
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“This resulted in the death of the recently wedded couple, Rwang Danladi and wife, Mrs Sandra Rwang Danladi, who are the staff of the school while Mr Dalyop Emmanuel Ibrahim who is the Vice Principal of the institution sustained serious injury and is receiving medical treatment at the Jos University Teaching Hospital”, he explained.
Continuing, he said, “The Berom Youth Moulders Association, BYM under the leadership of Solomon Dalyop Mwantiri, notes with concern how these terrorists from Fass and Mahanga communities now move freely with arms and graze on farmlands, intimidating and killing locals at nearby communities.
“Fass and Mahanga as well as Guava have become enclaves of terrorists, who carry out all sorts of coordinated attacks on villages and communities in Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Bokkos, Mangu, Jos South LGAs and even beyond the state.
“We, therefore, call on the government to ban open grazing in Plateau State since grazing has become a ploy to continue to unleash havoc on human lives and property.
“We also call on security operatives to, as a matter of urgency, raid the aforementioned settlements formed by way of forceful occupation after uprooting the aboriginals therefrom.
“This is necessary in order to get rid of both the terrorists and criminal elements that have firmly defied law and order.”