Two locals have been reportedly killed by headers barely two weeks after ten others lost their lives in Keana community in Nasarawa during an invasion.
The suspected Fulani herdsmen on Friday night invaded another Tiv Community in Gidan Ityotyev, in Obi Local Government Area killing two persons and injuring scores.
NigeriaCrime.com learned that the invaders chopped off the breast of one Kwaghdoo Saaku while the two were murdered are Moses Saaku and Aondofa Saaku.
Recounting their ordeal in the hands of the gunmen, Spokesperson for the community. Ukpuu Teryila Abaa, named members of the community killed during the attack to include Moses Saaku and Aondofa Saaku adding that the killers chopped off the breast of one Kwaghdoo Saaku during the invasion.
Ukpuu Teryila Abaa alleged that Gidan Ityotyev people took courage to resist the invasion, despite the attack and killings,
Ukpuu added that the attack on the people of the community took place at about 11:00 pm on Friday when almost every member of the village had gone to bed stating that on arrival at the village, the suspected herdsmen opened fire and shot sporadically in the community.
“The invaders noticing the resilience of people of the Gidan Ityotyev community withdrew from their attack immediately and took to their heels after succeeding in killing two persons of the same family, as well as cutting off the breast of another female member of the community with a sword.”
The spokesperson, however, expressed worries that the people of the community were in trauma following the invasion by the suspected herdsmen and appealed to the Nasarawa State government to provide the villagers with security personnel that will wade off another envisaged attack.
When contacted over the incident, the President of Tiv Development Association in Nasarawa State, Mr Peter Ahemba, confirmed that two people were killed and one other injured, whereas hundreds of Tiv people have been displaced in the course of the attack.
Ahemba, however, blamed the attack on what he termed “conspiracy of silence” among the political class of the two Local Governments of Obi and Keana.
“It is a conspiracy of silence fashioned against the Tiv people of the state by some tribal politicians of Obi and Keana Local Government Areas. The idea is to displace the Tiv people and consequently disenfranchised them in the 2023 general elections.
Nevertheless, when contacted, the Nasarawa State Police Command Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, said the command was yet to be informed about the incident.
“The command was yet to be briefed on the alleged attack”
He, however, assured that the command was ever ready to ensure that the lives and properties of the citizenry in the state is protected