Scores Feared Dead As Fulani Militia Attacks Adamawa Communities

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The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed attacks by rampaging Fulani militia on Dong and Lawura villages in the Demsa Local Government Area of the state.
Scores were reportedly killed including a District Head and one other village head as the assailants torched many buildings.
The spokesman for the Adamawa State Command, Superintendent Othman Abubakar, though confirmed the attack, in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, but did not give the casualty figure.
“Lawura and Dong communities in Demsa Local Government came under attacks by gunmen, but our operations unit has yet to provide me with details of the casualty figure,” he said.
“But according to reports we are getting through third parties, we gathered that some of the villages have been razed to the ground. But that is all we have for now.
“The other issue we have before us is that some communities in Tabongo and Gereng in Girei Local Government area require police reinforcement.”
Also, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Ahmad Sajoh, confirmed the incident, describing it as unfortunate.
Sajoh said the government held an emergency security meeting on the incident and took measures to contain the situation.
He added that military personnel and policemen have been deployed to contain the attackers.
Meanwhile, gunmen have also killed two policemen in Nasarawa State on the Akwanga-Keffi Federal Highway.
Police spokesman, Kennedy Idirisu, confirmed the incident to NAN in Lafia saying the policemen were stationed at Kubere village, some few kilometres from Gudi, on the Akwanga-Keffi highway, when the gunmen attacked them from the bush.
He said the command had deployed officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and the mobile police detachment alongside the vigilance group to comb the forest for the suspects.
According to him, the spot had been identified as a flashpoint for kidnapping and other crimes, hence the decision by the command to station its officers in the area.
Idrisu said the command will not be deterred from performing its constitutional responsibility of protecting life and property.

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