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 (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
jos is more hostile now than somalia and we said that we have a government and security agencies.
thats what actually you want in that region , you asked for it and you prays for it and you are getting it , but you should know too , that the evils that men do , always lives even longer than them , you never at any time prays for a peace to rain in that plateu , you must be so happy now for sure
Posted: at 22-02-2011 05:38 PM (14 years ago) | Grande Master
:'( this is not the time to blame the government, but a time to pray for this state (jos), let's pray for peace. cox that is the only medicine for this sickness, let it be our daily paryer point, for the friends we ve meet, and for those we ve not meet, Lord Jesus let ur eternal peace raign in jos, in Jesus name...AMEN...................
Posted: at 22-02-2011 06:41 PM (14 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 (14 years ago) | Newbie
interpo77 at 22-02-2011 07:20 PM (14 years ago) (m)
Quote from: ajanni on 22-02-2011 05:38 PM
Quote from: donuche on 22-02-2011 05:15 PM
jos is more hostile now than somalia and we said that we have a government and security agencies.
thats what actually you want in that region , you asked for it and you prays for it and you are getting it , but you should know too , that the evils that men do , always lives even longer than them , you never at any time prays for a peace to rain in that plateu , you must be so happy now for sure
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 (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
interpo77 at 22-02-2011 07:26 PM (14 years ago) (m)
pls let the militarySTF try their best to get those hudlums wealther death or alive the government is obligated to watch over the city let the invite THE AMERICAN criminal investigation agency to help in eradicating or fasten the investigation plss is an apeal almighty, pls have mercy on jos
Posted: at 22-02-2011 07:26 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
2000y247 at 22-02-2011 07:57 PM (14 years ago) (m)
Nigeria need to upgrade is security system,this is election time and this problem need to be address on security,how to provide proper logistics for various agency that are involve in security,
Posted: at 22-02-2011 07:57 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
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