The Chairman Toto local government area of Nasarawa State, Ahmed Baba Yahaya has imposed a curfew in Karmo and the surrounding areas.
The imposition of the curfew followed a clash between farmers and herders that had claimed three lives in Karmo community.
The council chairman took the decision after a security meeting with traditional rulers and security chiefs, and directed security personnel to enforce the curfew.
The measure, he said was t** necessary to prevent hoodlums from taking advantage of the crisis to cause further unrest.
It was gathered that the incident, which occurred last Wednesday, led to the destruction of property, including houses and motorcycles.
One of the local government council official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the woman was working on her farm when some stray cattle stormed the farm began eating her crops.
She reportedly confronted the herder, who told her that there was nothing she could do about it.
“Following a heated argument, the herder macheted the woman on the head. She collapsed and died,” the source said.
According to the source, when the community heard of the incident, some youths mobilised themselves to the Fulani settlement, where a fight broke out and left two more people dead.
“The herders later went to the community in retaliation, setting fire to houses and other property. Many motorcycles were burnt on both sides, he said.
Meanwhile, the state government has urged residents of Karmo to remain calm and not take the law into their own hands.
The Secretary to the State Government, Dr Labaran Magaji, SAN, made the appeal on Saturday after visited Karmo to offer condolences to the victims’ families and assess the damage.
He condemned the attack, describing the initial clash as avoidable and the subsequent reprisal as wholly unnecessary.
Magaji said the deaths were a painful loss for the entire community and assured residents that the government was monitoring the situation and would not abandon those affected.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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