OVER 30 Persons Confirmed Dead, Several Others Injured in Recent Attack on Bokkos by Herdsmen in Plateau

17 persons have been reportedly killed in an overnight attack on Ruboi community in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State by Fulani herdsmen. 

SaharaReporters confirmed this in a post it shared via social media on Tuesday, January 28. 

13 persons have also been killed, five others in recent attack on Kwatas community of the same local government area.

According to an eyewitness from Ruboi, "The marauding herdsmen burnt almost all houses in Ruboi. No house was spared."

Another eyewitness who confirmed the incident said that the herdsmen killed seventeen person, leaving five injured and several houses burnt. 

"The first attack started at 7:30pm and continued, the second one was from around 8:00pm to 4:00am", the witness added.

The witness also said that they had called for intervention but military didn't  show up until it was too late. 

"We saw their faces, they were Fulani herdsmen and they all wore black", he confirmed.

"There was no disagreement, they wrote on our walls that they were going to drive us away from the land because they said the land belonged to them.

"During the attack, they were shouting 'Plateau belongs to us!', 'Bokkos belongs to us!'. 

"They want our land and are killing us to take it because the government is silent."