In April, Tinubu promised Plateau ‘never again’. Months later, more than 100 people are dead

The holes left by bullets that riddled the doors of Eze Chidubem’s* chemist and provision store in March are still there, seven months after the incident. When gunshots rang in the air in the Angwan Rukuba community in Jos, Plateau state, residents thought it was officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on a raid. Chiduben, who had run the store for over two decades, thought so, too, until a bullet hit the leg of the customer he was attending to.

“It was terrible,” Chidubem told TheCable, hissing through his teeth. “I don’t even know how to describe it. It happened as if fowl were more valuable than human lives.

“My shop was a pool of blood. The people who did this thing are animals.”

It was Palm Sunday. 

Some armed men riding on motorcycles invaded the Gari Ya Waye area of Angwan Rukuba, Jos North, on the evening of March 29 and shot sporadically at people initially before making targeted attacks on homes and shops by banging and forcing doors open. It was Palm Sunday. 

“All of this, everything happened within 15 minutes,” Chidubem said. 

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