12 killed in Plateau midnight attack

Jos- Twelve people were killed and several others injured in a fresh attack on Rwang Fang village in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau in the early hours of Tuesday by unknown assailants.

Among those killed was a driver, his wife and their four children.

The military Special Task Force (STF) Spokesman, Capt. Charles Ekeocha, who confirmed the incident  blamed the villagers for not contacting the force on time.

He said: “The attack was carried out around midnight, but the villagers did not inform us until the attackers had fled.

“A military helicopter has been deployed there for aerial surveillance, because some cattle were also rustled during the attack.”

Ekeocha said more troops had been deployed to beef up security in the area, and that men of the force were on the trail of the assailants.

He said relevant information about the victims would be released later, and promised that the military was on top of the situation.

Also men of the joint Special Task Force (STF) in charge of the security in troubled Plateau have arrested 60 youths suspected to be miscreants in some “hostile communities’’ in Jos.

The development followed a night raid, which Capt. Charles Ekeocha, said would “soon become a more regular exercise toward freeing the capital city of hoodlums’’.

“What we want to do is to check cases of silent attacks and secret killings that are fast becoming  the order of the day in some parts of the metropolis lately,’’ he said in Jos on Tuesday.
According to him, the intelligence department of the STF is responsible for the raid and they did that based on intelligence reports they received in those areas.

He, however, said that those who have no case to answer would be released later, while those who could help the force with “some relevant information” would be kept further.

Ekeocha said that the raid would continue in some designated places in the metropolis until hoodlums engaged to foment trouble are chased out of the communities.

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Posted: at 22-02-2011 04:29 PM (13 years ago) | Addicted Hero

I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS GOAT PEOPLE ARE WICKED LIKS THIS.THEY WILL DIDE ONE BY ONE.ANIMALS.

Posted: at 22-02-2011 05:23 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

Na waooo, which day dis Jos crisis go end self, can't govt do sometyn to it, dis just callous..

Posted: at 22-02-2011 05:41 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

GOD HELP US

Posted: at 22-02-2011 06:22 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie

which way are we goin NIGERIAN GOVT... We r e totally embarrassed about this..... So sad..

Posted: at 22-02-2011 06:36 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie

well, is not a new story, this is not the first time, and i pray such will not repeat itself again, but where is our securities, what of our governors, president, it pains me a lot, anytime i remembers Nigeria to other countries, we are far back.

Am scared, coming to Nigeria does not worth it, no light, no water, no security, no road, no improvement, WHO WILL REVIVE THAT COUNTRY, NO BODY, ON BY GOD INTERVENTION. GOD WILL HELP US.

Posted: at 22-02-2011 06:45 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie

OHH PALS,U CAN JUST SEE WHAT THIS AJANNI MAN WAS JUST SAYING HERE,cant we sence some kind of irresponsibility
from him? for me, his comment on this post has a lot to say, is either he is a memeber of this group concerned in killing innocent souls
or he is an arrogant son of devil that believe in sucking blood.how can he be lafin or showing a kind of blaiming to donuche.
pls any perosn that knows ajanni must report him to STF b4 others

Posted: at 22-02-2011 07:20 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Why government don't want to do something in this jos

Posted: at 22-02-2011 07:35 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie

really

Posted: at 22-02-2011 07:48 PM (13 years ago) | Grande Master

YOU WILL ALSO PRAY FOR THE ARAB PEOPLE TOO 

Posted: at 22-02-2011 07:56 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming