No fewer than 27 Fulani pastoralists have been reportedly killed after a bomb exploded, Tuesday night at the border linking Nasarawa and Benue States in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa state.
Police Public Relations Officer, Nasarawa State Command, DSP Ramhan Nansel, disclosed this to our correspondent in Lafia on Wednesday.He, however, said the state police command was working in collaboration with sister security agencies and the state government to unravel the circumstances that led to the bombing and arrest the perpetrators.
Meanwhile, Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, had commented on the sad incident which led to the death of the Fulani pastoralists, vowing to ensure that those behind the killing are apprehended and made to face the law. Sule said, “On behalf of the state government, I want to sympathise with the Fulani people across the state over the killings of their people by an unknown bomber. I want to assure them of the state government’s commitment to unravelling the perpetrators of the act to face the full wrath of the law.”
The State Chairman, Miyetti Allah Kautal Horai, Ardo Dano, who spoke to our correspondent on the incident, expressed shock over the bombing that killed his kinsmen.
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