Gunmen kill pastor, spouse, three others in recent Plateau assault
Gunmen have reportedly killed a pastor, Dauda Dalyop, in Plateau State.
It was gathered that the cleric with the Assemblies of God Church was killed alongside his spouse and three others throughout an assault which befell within the Kwall group, Bassa Local Government Area of the state on Monday.
The National Publicity Secretary of the Irigwe Development Association, Sam Jugo, confirmed the event in an announcement circulated to his kinsmen on Wednesday.
The assertion obtained by our correspondent in Jos, the state capital on Wednesday learn, “Dear kinsmen, we wakened this morning to a different unhappy one. In the midnight of June 2, 2024, legal invaders attacked and killed 5 of our residents in chilly blood at Ari Songo (Songo’s House), Kimakpa, Kwall District.
“The legal parts who got here of their numbers with heavy weaponry killed Pastor Dauda Dalyop, 63 years (Assemblies of God Church, Kwall); Mrs Chummy Dauda, 57 years; Mr Chwe Ajuhs, 26 years; Mr. Joshua Kusa, 45 years; Mrs Rikwe Doro, 43 years.
“Two individuals have been severely injured and are presently present process therapy at residence. Troops of Operation Safe Haven have been immediately mobilised to avert additional genocide.
“There’s uneasy calm within the Kwall district as at press time. This unhappy incident got here simply two days after some disgruntled parts ambushed some Rigwe youths on a motorbike whereas getting back from the Gero mining website and immediately killed Mr Irmiya Musa Timbi and severely injured one different.
“We use this medium to additional attraction for calm to allow the safety businesses to hold out their investigations. We ought to upscale our vigilance, keep away from night time actions to distant locations, suppress the urge for reprisal or taking the regulation into our personal fingers and provides the safety businesses the advantage of the doubt.
” As a lot as we’re fairly saddened by this condemnable incident, we can not afford to worsen the state of affairs by in search of self-help at the moment. We name on the safety businesses to do the needful by fishing out the culprits in order that the affected will see justice being served as that’s the one method to restore the arrogance of our individuals.”
In one other assertion which the National Publicity Secretary despatched to his kinsmen on Wednesday after the burial of the victims, Jugo mentioned, “This is to replace you on the state of affairs at Kimakpa, Kwall, on what has transpired up to now. The police group and the LG chairman stopped by to test the police outstation in Miango for potential upgrades and in addition visited the palace of the Brra Nggwe to console him over the incident at Kwall final night time and different comparable incidences within the final couple of days.
“The IDA President appealed to the Police Commissioner to contemplate upgrading the police outstation to a Division and in addition set up an outstation in Kwall. The CP promised to look into the matter.
“Meanwhile, the Operation Safe Haven commander has deployed officers of the Special Task Force to apprehend the culprits and they’re already at work. The police commissioner of Plateau State, O. E. Adesina, and senior law enforcement officials together with the DPO Bassa LG. and the native authorities chairman, Mr. Fidelis Adara, with different native authorities workers got here to examine the incident and to console the individuals.
“The three Rigwe victims were buried after the police’s visit while the pastor and his wife were moved to the O.L.A. Hospital mortuary.”
Recall that in April 2024, gunmen killed 10 individuals in two separate assaults in Plateau State. https://punchng.com/gunmen-kill-10-in-plateau-communities/
The assaults which occurred in Mandung-Mushu and Kopnanle villages in Bokkos and Mangu LGAs left a number of individuals injured with properties together with homes of the villagers set ablaze by the gunmen.
The Chairman of Bokkos Cultural Development Council, Farmasum Fuddang, confirmed the killings in an announcement.
