SENATOR
Gyang Dantong might have died of exhaustion, a survivor of Sunday’s
attack on participants at a mass burial in Matse, Jos, Mr. Simon
Mwadkon, said on Monday.
Mwadkon, a member of the House of Representatives, who narrated how
the Senator died to Governor Jonah Jang in Jos, said gunmen, suspected
to be Fulani herdsmen, “started shooting, (at the burial), forcing
everyone to abandon the corpses and scurry to safety.”
According to Mwadkon , while running for dear lives, Dantong; the
Majority Leader in the state House of Assembly, Gyang Fulani; and
Mwadkon himself were said to have slumped.
But while Mwadkom was revived, both the Senator and the state lawmaker died.
He narrated, “We were at the burial ground preparing to bury the
victims of a massive attack on the villages when the gunmen started
shooting, forcing everyone to abandon the corpses and scurry to safety.
“Everyone was racing away, but the Senator slumped first and there was a rush to take him.”
The federal lawmaker described the persistent killings in an area
under a state of emergency imposed by the Federal Government as “very
outrageous and embarrassing.’
He said that hundreds of villagers had been killed in the past few
months, stressing that in some cases, whole villages were wiped out in
such attacks.
Mwadkon however called on the Federal Government to protect the villagers as they remain vulnerable to attacks every day.
Sequel to weekend’s bloody attacks in Plateau State, President
Goodluck Jonathan on Monday held an emergency meeting with security
chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
But none of the participants at the meeting spoke to journalists after the session.
When approached, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal
Oluseyi Petinrin, referred journalists to the National Security Adviser,
Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
Dasuki in turn referred journalists back to Petinrin for comment.
“Is that what the CDS said? That I am the one to talk? Ok. I am now saying ‘go back to the CDS.’”
When told that the CDS had left the State House, Dasuki kept mum and
forced his way into his waiting car with the aid of his security detail.
While making his way into the car, a journalist asked for the latest
on the killing of the lawmakers to which the NSA responded, “Is that
what happened? No, that was not what happened.” And his driver sped off.
PUNCH NEWSPAPER
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