AGAIN? Gunmen Kill Six, Set Church Ablaze In Plateau State (Details)

“OPSH notes with dismay the continued attitude of some criminal elements in Plateau State to make the state ungovernable through some unwarranted attacks on some communities and the innocent villagers despite the tireless efforts of the operation.
“We regret to say that at about 03 00 hours on Sunday, our men at Dorowa received a distress call from a resident of Maraban Kantoma in Barkin Ladi that they were under attack by some armed bandits, our men mobilised to the scene and repelled the attackers, the assailants who were given a hot chase by our men escaped with varying degree of injuries, while four of them were arrested.
However, it is regrettable that before our men could get to the scene of the attack, four persons had already been killed by the attackers. However, President of the Church of Christ in Nations, Rev. Dachollom Datiri, accused the Special Tasks Force (STF) in the state of failing in their responsibility to protect lives and property of the people.
Datiri in a statement signed by his Public Relations and Protocol Officer, Rev. Justin Ahmadu and issued to journalists said the church had had enough of the government’s insensitivity; and if nothing would be done to salvage the situation and restore hope among the already desperate populace, the church would be left with no option than to believe that government had abandoned them and therefore deserved no chance in future elections.
“The security agencies, especially the STF, who have failed in their responsibilities of protecting lives and property, have refused to allow our already traumatised members recover the corpses of their massacred relations for mass burial to shield the world from the realities of the sustained injustice in the state.
“They have in fact, from reliable sources sworn to withhold any medical, humanitarian or security intervention until they silently bury the dead members without any media coverage. “This to us is totally unacceptable; and it does prove that we have been strategically alienated in our own country by the very government we voted into power, with the hope of enjoying the best of welfare and security as guaranteed by the constitution.”