According to a report released on Thursday by the Gideon and Funmi Para-Mallam Peace Foundation, at least 346 people have reportedly been killed in the past three months in eight local government areas of Plateau State.
As of Saturday, July 8, 2023, the organization reported that out of the total, over 200 lives have been killed as a result of frequent violent attacks in the Mangu LGA alone.
The data were provided in a report that journalists in Abuja were able to receive from the Foundation’s founder and executive director, Rev. Dr. Gideon Para-Mallam, who also stated that the homicides occurred between April 17 and July 10, 2023.
He added that there were currently about 18,751 Internally Displaced Persons in 14 camps in Plateau State.
Para-Mallam, a peace advocate, said 17 people were killed in Bokkos, Mangu, 234; Barkin Ladi, 39; Riyom 36; Jos North 5; Jos North 9; Mikang 5 and Bassa 01.
He said 14 IDP camps are hosted by the Church of Christ in the Nations Local Church Councils, adding that a breakdown of the IDPs shows: 2,081 widows, 6,066 Orphans between the ages of 0-5 years old.
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The activist added that old people account for 1,057 of the victims while teenagers and adult orphans were 828.
He said a total of 6,603 households were affected by these deadly attacks.
While stressing that the current harvest of deaths in the Mangu LGA must be treated with the utmost urgency it deserved, Para-Mallam said the inability of the Federal Government to tame the killings suggested looking the other way while the current inhumanity continued.
He said, “Take it or leave it, a foundation for full-blown nation-wide terrorism is being laid. No country should localise and allow acts of terror on its citizens. “Whatever the motivation behind these attacks on the Plateau, the fact remains that people are being killed in their hundreds.
“The burden of these killings should not rest only on the shoulders of the new Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Muftwang. The burden should not also rest only on the shoulders of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“In fact, the burden rests on the shoulders of all Nigerians.”
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