Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has given four councils’ sole administrators and traditional rulers where 15 Fulanis were killed seven days to fish out the perpetrators or risk losing their positions.
The governor, who gave the order during a security stakeholders meeting in the Government House Lokoja, lamented the killings which happened in Yagba West, Omala, Dekina and Igalamela.
He warned his administration will not condone killings of any citizen in the state.
While handing ultimatum to the sole administrators of the four local government areas and their traditional rulers, Bello vowed to apprehend and bring to book those behind the dastardly act.
He said his administration will not allow the situation that occurred in Benue, Nasarawa and Zamfara states to happen in Kogi.
“These Fulanis have been staying with us in the state peacefully without any rancour; any politician or detractor who are behind this killing will be made to face the full wrath of the law as my administration will not spare anybody no matter how highly placed in the society,” he warned.
He commended the security agents for efforts in ensuring absolute peace in the state, urging them to do more to keep the state even safer.
The administrator of Yagba West, where the killing of 11 Fulanis took place, Comrade Joseph Olutimi, stated he received a report that a farmer was allegedly killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen, noting that he quickly informed the security agents who swung into action.
He pointed out the Fulanis were killed by yet- to- be identified gunmen, stressing the people of the local government have been lived peacefully with the resident Fulanis.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Commodore Jerry Omadara (retd.) reported last week a farmer in Yagba West was allegedly murdered in his farm by suspected herdsmen.
He said some people took the law into their hand in a reprisal attack, killing ten Fulanis residing in some communities in the local government and dumped their corpses in the Omi dam.
He disclosed three corpses of Fulanis were found in Oluja community, in Dekina local government while several cows were killed by unknown gunmen.
He stated that Omiyowo, Ogar, Ejigba and Dekina recorded high rate of killing of innocent citizens.
The Secretary of the Meyetti Allah group in Yagba West, Mohammed Mainasara, said that eleven Fulanis resident in the council were killed without provocation.