THIRTY-TWO cows, valued at N4.2 million, belonging to a Fulani herdsman, one Muhammed Jubril, at Idoko Village in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, have been killed by people suspected to be Tiv farmers.
The action, it was alleged, was a reprisal by the Tiv farmers, whose village was reportedly invaded twice this month by suspected Fulani herdsmen who killed about 23 persons and injured 12 others.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Cornelius Ocholi, claimed then that only 12 people died in the two incidents.
The latest development, said to have happened around 1.00 p.m. on Tuesday, a day after the state governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, and his Benue State counterpart, Gabriel Suswam, held a meeting in Lafia to fashion out ways to curb incessant crisis between members of the two tribes, left 10 other cows wounded.
Sources said Jubril had left the cows for a moment where they were grazing, after which he heard gunshots and before he could get back, 32 cows were dead and the assailants had disappeared.
Confirming the latest development, Ocholi said 32 cows were killed and 10 others injured.
The police spokesman, who have the assurance that the perpetrators would be fished out and brought to book, appealed to the Fulani herdsmen not to take laws into their own hands in the matter.
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