After a few years of uneasy lull, the ominous peace that had subsisted in the Jos areas of Plateau State was shattered last week with the massacre of 29 people, mostly women and children, in a school where the military had kept them for their supposed safety in Nkiedonwhro, Irigwe Chiefdom.
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State had imposed a curfew following an upsurge in raids by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen. Soldiers from Operation Safe Haven, Op-SH, sent to enforce order were reported to have, during the night of the fateful attack, engaged the marauding herdsmen in an exchange of gunfire and repelled them, only to leave the area soon after, thus giving the pastoral militia the chance to return and murder the defenceless villagers in cold blood.
Sources said these attacks were reprisals in the wake of a Fulani boy who was killed while tending to his cattle. President…
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