One Killed as Herdsmen Allegedly Attack Kogi Community

Yekini Jimoh

One person has been confirmed dead as herdsmen attack government reservation area bordering Dekina and Omala Local Councils in the Eastern Senatorial district of Kogi State.

THISDAY gathered that the attack was in retaliation by the Fulani herdsmen following an attack on the Fulani by some of the communities which led to the killing of two Fulanis while 20 cows were also killed about two weeks ago.

It was yesterday gathered that the late Yahaya Amodu, a timber merchant in the company of six others went to the reservation area to fetch timbers that have already been cut down, preparatory to be transported home.

Luck, however, ran out of them when the herdsmen who were on retaliatory mission meters away to the location opened fire on them and killed one of the Timbermen.

Eyewitness account has it that he was going ahead of others and he was shot while others scampered into the bush for safety.

The source who narrated the incident to newsmen said that the incident happened last recently saying that fear and tension couldn’t allow the people of the community to look for his corpse until the following day.

It was rumoured among those communities that herdsmen were camping in their numbers in a nearby forest in preparation for a retaliatory attack on those communities which they believed killed two of their people and 20 cows about two weeks ago.