SDP guber candidate condemns fresh attack on Nasarawa community, faults govt’s response

Nasarawa State governorship campaigner of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, successful the 2027 election, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu has condemned the reported onslaught connected Ogobo assemblage successful Udege Area Administrative Council, which near 5 persons critically injured.

The attack, which occurred connected Tuesday, was allegedly carried retired by suspected equipped herdsmen who invaded the predominantly Afo assemblage with AK-47 rifles and machetes, shooting sporadically and inflicting heavy cuts connected residents.

Reacting to the development, Adamu, a erstwhile Inspector-General of Police (IGP), described the onslaught arsenic “heartbreaking, barbaric and unacceptable.”

He stated this successful a connection issued by his Campaign Council and signed by its Director of Digital Media and Strategic Communications, High Chief Otaru Douglas.

Adamu expressed heavy interest implicit the incidental and commiserated with the injured victims and the full Afo community.

The assembly besides called for calm and urged youths successful the country to debar reprisal attacks, portion appealing to residents to refrain from taking the instrumentality into their ain hands.

It, however, faulted the Nasarawa State Government implicit what it described arsenic a lukewarm and insensitive effect to the information challenges confronting agrarian communities crossed the state.

“The continued killings person go a recurring decimal due to the fact that the ...