It has been revealed that there was a fresh gunmen attack
on Saturday evening in Wase area of Plateau state. The attack claimed lives of three
people, included a primary school headmaster while several persons sustained
gunshot injuries. Their figure was put at not less than 20. The gunshot wounds
were reportedly inflicted by youths from Kadarko town. Over 500 houses were said to have been razed by the heavily
armed Kadarko ‘militants’. According to reports the crisis was over leadership
between tussle between Jat community and Kumbwan community in Wase Local
Government of Area of Plateau State.
The slain teacher, Ramson Nimmyel, hailed
from Jat community in Gwantim. Nimmyel was reportedly killed at about 7:30pm
when some heavily armed youths from Kadarko town stormed the community and
started shooting sporadically and razing their houses.
This left many women and children in critical condition,
while some were rushed to Langtang General Hospital. A 13-year-old traditional
leadership tussle among 12 clans resulted in some people of Tarok stock, who
were displaced from Wase and Kanam Local Government Areas in a 2001 crisis, to
agree to settle in a new settlement, Gwantim.
However, the union suffered a major crisis when people of
Jat decided to install Mamdan Mallam, the Ponzhi Jat, as the new head of the
community. This did not go down well with the people of Kadarko, whose head, A.
Lot, was the Ponzhi Kadarko. The Chairman of Gwan Ishi Otaroh, Wase branch, Jangle
Nanbut, confirmed that there was indeed heavy fighting between the Tarok, who
settled in Gwantim, and the Tarok in Kadarko town over the ward head.
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