A few hours after the Plateau State Government declared a 24-hour curfew in conflict-ridden communities in Mangu local council, the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) relocated its orientation camp to Jos South.
The scheme said the orientation camp was shifted to a temporary site in order to safeguard the lives of prospective corps members deployed to the state considering the continued attacks in the area.
Eddy Megwa, NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations in a statement said the orientation camp has been located from its permanent site to Waye Foundation, by Buken Academy Doi-Du in Jos South local council.
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“This is to inform Members of the public, especially our esteemed Prospective Corps Members that the venue of the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream One Orientation Camp for Plateau State has been changed from the Permanent Orientation Camp in Mangu to Waye Foundation, by Buken Academy Doi-Du (Temporary NYSC Orientation Camp) in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
“All Prospective Corps Members are by this information expected to report at the new Orientation Camp (Waye Foundation by Buken Academy) on the dates specified in their call-up letters,” the statement read.
WikkiTimes had earlier reported that the ethno-religious conflict between Fulani herders and Mmwagavul farmers in the local council resurfaced on Friday with many locals killed while others were displaced.
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The herders were attacked in the early hours of Friday, July 7, at their various settlements, while the Mmwagavuls were attacked last night.
Four days ago, Abdullah Didimi, a resident of Jannaret, a community in Mangu LGA did not know he would be rendered homeless and stripped of his belongings, including some of his relatives.
The scary gunshots in the early hours of Friday still reverberate in the memory of the 75-year-old man.
“It was early morning before we woke up, we began to hear gunshots sporadically,” he told WikkiTimes.
Abdullahi believes the attack was carried out by Mmwagavul people, a predominant tribe in the local council alongside men of Operation Rainbow, a local security outfit in the state.
He said the dire raid led to the killing of five people across Didim village, Kumbuli, Shagal and Dan Hausa. “Among them is my brother Malam Seni,” the septuagenarian said amid tears.
According to him, the assailants spared no one. They attacked women, aged persons, children, animals and their farmlands.
“They also destroyed farmlands and set our houses ablaze,” he added.
Abdullahi and other scores of displaced victims now camp in public buildings in neighbouring villages. The locals said they are in desperate need of food and other necessities.
