Nasarawa Governor Urges Calm Over Tattara Mada Attack

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has condemned the recent attack on Tattara Mada community in Kokona local government area of the state by herdsmen which led to death of many locals.

The attackers also razed many houses and destroyed property worth millions of naira.

LEADERSHIP had earlier reported that there was contradiction in the casualty figure from the attack which also affected Angwan Dakpa and Angwan Ayuba communities.

While the police put the number of those killed in the attack at three, locals said 12 people lost their lives in the mayhem.

Speaking when he played host to members of the correspondents chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists Nasarawa State chapter during a Sallah homage in his country home in Gudi, Akwanga local government area, Governor Sule described the attack as unfortunate and needless.

He said the attack had thrown up serious humanitarian crisis with many people displaced.

“Tattara is one of the most beautiful places for Mada nation to live, now it has been destroyed by the Fulani herders and all the Tattara people are all in Garaku taking refuge because of a simple ethnic problem.

“The state government has already intensified effort to see how it can bring the situation under control. And all the people around the area have run away from there because they are afraid and they wouldn’t want what happened to Tattara people to happen to them.

“This is what ethnic crisis can bring to you. It is not necessary and is uncalled for and the destruction is massive. The  people of Angwan Tafa and Ayuba have also run away owing to the crisis,” he lamented.

The governor appealed to the people of the state to learn to accommodate one another irrespective of tribe and religion.

“Let me also use this special occasion of the Eid celebration to call on my dear people of Nasarawa to continue to accommodate one another’s beliefs and values in order to sustain peace, harmony, socio-cultural and economic prosperity.

“In this regard, I wish to assure our brothers from other regions in the country that Nasarawa  is a miniature society that accommodates all and sundry, irrespective of tribe, region, religion or any other creed,” Sule said.