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On 2 December 2010, an attack on Rikwechongu village, south west of Jos, left 8 people dead and houses destroyed.  Other victims were stabbed or had hands cut off by machete.

‘I heard a voice calling my name outside.  I recognized the voice; a young Fulani boy whose family left our village soon after the 2001 crises in Jos … when I heard the word “we” I knew they must be many … Isa overheard me and immediately instructed his men to shoot.  They set fire to a barn nearby.  I asked my wife to get the children out through an exit behind the house not knowing that the perpetrators have surrounded the house.  They were murdered as they ran out.  All this happened in less than seven minutes and they all disappeared.’

When asked why the Fulani left, the village head said they left voluntarily in 2001, they were not chased out. He said although complaints were made to the local government on their non payment of rent, nothing was further said about it. 

11 youths were subsequently arrested.  Reuben Zongo, the Chief Scribe to the Bra-Ngwerigwe, asked people not to retaliate but allow the government to take the necessary actions.   Pray that the government will take the necessary action to stop this new style of crime being inflicted on their communities.