When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, ASP Tyopev Terna, said a village in the local government was attacked but cannot confirm the number of persons killed.
He said, “the Commissioner of Police in the state is on the spot assessment of the attacked village and will brief the press soon”, he said.
Meanwhile, a Member representing Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency of Plateau State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Suleiman Kwande, called on the Federal Government to investigate the serial killings in Bassa LGA.
Hon. Kwande condemned the killings and described it as “unfortunate”, particularly at a time that peace has returned to the state after decades of violence.
“The new turn of killing of innocent people in Bassa LGA in recent time is very unfortunate and disheartening. The native of the locality in the last few weeks have suffered unprovoked attacks that resulted to the killing of innocent people.
“I call on the Federal Government to set up a committee to investigate the fresh killing on innocent persons, including children, women and men in a primary school where they were taking refuge
“Enough is enough of the killings and security agencies must wake up to their constitutional responsibility of protecting lives in the state: this evil must stop”.
Hon. Kwande called on National Emergency Management Agency to provide relief materials to the affected community and the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Plateau State Ministry of Health to move to the affected villages and provide treatment to the victims.
He reiterated that security agencies must not relent in its efforts at identifying and prosecuting all those behind the heinous crime, which seeks to take the State back to the dark days of violent Conflicts.
Also the Northern chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN ), Rev Pam Yakubu, has also condemned in strongest terms the attacks and killings in Irigwe Chiefdom of Bassa
LGA.
In a statement in Jos, Pam expressed his worries that people that have lived peaceful with one another in Irigewe chiefdom have taken up arms against themselves leading to the killings of innocent persons of the locality.
The CAN chairman tasked the state government to do all it can to set up a machinery in motion to unearth those behind the recent attacks in Bassa and Barkin ladi LGA.