In the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, bandits stormed a secondary school and killed two teachers.
The victims were a newlywed couple who worked as teachers at the BECO Comprehensive Secondary school in the Kwi hamlet of the municipal region.
The event, according to eyewitnesses, occurred on Monday after school at a meeting to compile student results for distribution on Friday, August 18, during their “Speech and Prize Giving Day,” in accordance with the school’s calendar.
Moses Gwott, a local youth leader, told The PUNCH in Jos, Nigeria, on Tuesday that the bandits also injured several teachers, including the vice principal of the institution.
The thieves entered the school compound on Monday about 3:00 p.m. with their livestock and interrupted the staff meeting, according to Gwott.The staff had requested that the clearly Fulani criminals remove their cows from the vicinity of the school. However, rather than submitting, they pulled out weapons and started firing at the teachers, killing two of them.
In a statement on Tuesday, Rwang Tengwong, the national publicity secretary of the Berom Youths Moulders Association, also acknowledged the attack and urged the government to enact a ban on open grazing in the localities to prevent such incidents.
The Berom Youths Moulder-Association-BYM is once more saddened by the invasion of BECO Comprehensive School Kwi, where two staff members, Mr. and Mrs. Rwang Danladi, are reportedly shot dead and one Mr. Dalyop Emmanuel Ibrahim, the school’s vice principal, seriously injured by some known Fulani armed men along with suspected Bandits elements at around 3:00pm on Monday, August 14, 2023.
“This led to the deaths of two newlywed couples who worked at the school, Rwang Danladi and his wife, Mrs. Sandra Rwang Danladi, while Mr. Dalyop Emmanuel Ibrahim, the vice principal of the organisation, suffered serious injuries and is currently receiving medical care at the Jos University Teaching Hospital-JUTH.
“The Berom Youth Moulder-Association, BYM, under the direction of Solomon Dalyop Mwantiri, Esq., notes with alarm how these terrorists from Fass and Mahanga now travel freely with their weapons and graze on farmlands, intimidating inhabitants at adjacent Communities.
Terrorists have made Fass, Mahanga, and Guava into enclaves from which they launch a variety of planned operations against towns and villages in Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Bokkos, Mangu, Jos South, and even outside the state.
We thus urge the government to outlaw open grazing in Plateau state since it has turned into a means of committing more damage to people’s lives and property.
“We also urge security personnel to immediately conduct a raid on the aforementioned community that was established through forcible occupation after the removal of the native inhabitants. This is essential in order to eliminate the criminal and terrorist elements who have steadfastly flouted the rule of law.
“BYM demands that the Government designate the Fulani Militias as terrorists so that they may be dealt as such.”
When our correspondent called Alfred Alabo, the state’s police public relations officer, to request a statement about the incident, calls over to his phone line indicated that it was off.
