POLYCARP AUTA FROM PM NEWS
Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed Rev. Nichodemus Kim of the Church of Christ in the Nation (COCIN) and 20 others in Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas, Plateau state.
The pastor was assassinated in Barkin Ladi’s Gana-Ropp hamlet, while others were slaughtered in Riyom’s Rim, Jol, and Kwi communities.
Mr. Rwang Tengwong, National Publicity Secretary of the Berom Youth Movement (BYM), a socio-cultural organisation, announced this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Jos.
According to Tengwong, the communities were targeted simultaneously and with great precision.
He explained that the attacks on Sunday night left numerous persons with varied degrees of injuries, and that scores of people are temporarily displaced.
”Twenty-one persons were killed and several others injured on Sunday during coordinated attacks by militias on residents of Rim, Jol, Kwi communities of Riyom as well as Gana-Ropp community in Barkin Ladi
”Two persons were killed at Rim, Seven at Jol, 11 at Kwi, all in Riyom, while a clegyman, Rev. Nichodemus Kim, was killed in Gana-Ropp Barkin Ladi
”The attacks on Rim, Jol and Kwi were simultaneously coordinated and held between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday.
”In Kwi, an entire community, Hei-gwe, was razed and over 100 farmlands destroyed,” he said.
Tengwong called on the government and the security agencies to fashion out lasting solutions to the spate of attacks and killings in communities.
”The BYM under the leadership of Solomon Mwantiri, hereby condemns the coordinated attacks and other forms of provocation meted out on…
