Few days after the Christmas eve massacre of at least 195 persons in Plateau State, the Middle-Belt Forum, MBF, said on Thursday that the insurgents have written Pushit community in Mangu LGA, promising a fresh attack.
MBF Deputy National President, Stanley Kavwam, who disclosed this in an interview on Arise TV, said the terrorists were planning to launch the attack on the Pushit community on December 29 (today).
He added that anonymous persons dropped letters of previous attacks on Mangu LGA.
This comes as the perpetrators of the Christmas eve attack are yet to be arrested despite President Bola Tinubu’s riot act.
President Tinubu had in a statement, condemned the attacks and ordered the security agencies to apprehend the killers.
Kavwam spoke as the United Nations and Northern Caucus of the House of Representatives and Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda, on Thursday demanded a thorough investigation and probe of the attacks.
About 25 Plateau communities suffered coordinated attacks by gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, who massacred no fewer than 195, injured more than 3,000 and displaced 10,000 residents.
1,290 houses were razed by the invaders.
According to Kavwam, the military know the identity of the attackers and their hideouts, saying that some communities were still being invaded.
“While I was driving down from Jos to this place, I received a call. A letter was sent to my own village by the terrorists that the attackers were going to invade on December 29,” he said.
He added, “In all the attacks that were orchestrated, there was a letter to that effect that was dropped by an anonymous person, intimating the residents of Mangu LGA that there would be attacks.”
Asked if they informed the security forces of the letters on impending attacks, he said over 30 distress calls were made to security personnel before the recent attacks in Plateau.
Kavwam disclosed that the communities attacked in Plateau were Christian settlements and that the operation usually lasted for about 24 hours without security intervention.
He said security agencies knew that an attack was coming before the Christmas eve massacre.
“They received about 37 distress calls, that is operation Safe Haven or the Joint Task Force. About 37 distress calls! Yet nothing was done.
“All the casualties that we are talking about are in a community inhabited by Christians and the security forces know the attackers, they even know their hideouts for two decades.
“They know where they orchestrate the attacks because that autonomous community, called Manga, is at the foot of Bokkos hills, bordering Wamba in Nasarawa State to the south.
“It’s this autonomous community these attacks are orchestrated from, just the same way we have in the Mandara hills in Borno State.
“For instance, the military relocated an entire community of over 11,000 people, leaving the entire Dangoa road free for the terrorists to operate.
“Section 14B of the 1999 Constitution as amended stipulates that the welfare and security of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. These attacks could last for as long as 12 to 24 hours and there is no security presence whatsoever.
“Pushit community is in Mangu LGA of Plateau State. A letter was sent today (yesterday) to Pushit that they are going to attack on the 29th.”
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