No fewer than four persons are feared dead following a midnight attack by suspected herdsmen on Kikon, a village in the Numan Local Government of Adamawa State.
The herdsmen were said to have stormed the community around 1am on Sunday, burning down the entire village and killing two men and two women.
Othman Abubakar, the Police Public Relations Officer for the Adamawa State Police Command, confirmed the attack, adding that four people were killed in the incident.
Residents told one of the Punch correspondents that the attackers drove into the town on motorcycles, carried out the attack and carted away foodstuffs and livestock belonging to the community.
A community leader, Dr John Gamsa, told the Punch that the security men deployed in the community did nothing to protect the villagers during the attack.
He said, “The deployment of five units of mobile policemen in our area was meant for the protection of Fulani herdsmen.
“The soldiers drafted to this area were just sitting and watching while the herdsmen have their fill of blood.
“As far as I am concerned, the only job of the policemen is to attack members of the community when they want to fight back against the Fulani herdsmen.
“Since the IG deployed his men in this area, the attacks have increased. The Federal Government is not sincere enough as it has not done anything to stop the attacks.”
Kikon is the eighth community that has been attacked in the Numan and Demsa areas between December 2017 and January 2018.
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