A fresh crisis has rocked the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State with four people killed and several houses, including churches and mosques burnt down.
The governor of the state, Caleb Mutfwang, declared a 24-hour curfew in the Mangun local government due to the unrest in the area.
According to the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security and Homeland Safety, Brig Gen Gakji Shipi, the situation was caused by a misunderstanding between two individuals in the council area.
The crisis is not political or has anything to do with the farmers-herders crisis, he added.
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According to him, It was just two human beings that had an altercation and by coincidence, one of them happens to be a herder and the other person is a native.
The native was crossing with his motorcycle and the Fulani was grazing his cattle and crossing the road and that obstructed traffic and there was an altercation between them.
When that happened, the Fulani people came in support of their own and the natives also came in support of their own.
Bala Fwangji, a former lawmaker representing Mangu South confirmed the incident to Punch.
Fwangji said:
“What happened today in Mangu is not good at all.
“We just woke up to hear that some people are burning houses in Mangu and attacking anyone in sight.
“I cannot tell you how many houses were burnt, or the number of people attacked or killed, but these things happened today.
“But we thank God the security agents have been deployed and the situation is calm now.”
