LEADERSHIP was reliably informed that a Fulani
herdsman who strayed into a farm in the village on 23 November, 2016,
allegedly started the crisis when he threatened the owner of the
destroyed crops with a gun.
According to a realiable source, the distraught
farmer reported the incident to his kinsmen who went after the herdsmen
around 7pm that fateful day instead of alerting the police.
Confirming the tragedy, the spokesman of Katsina State
Police Command, Salisu Abubakar Agaisa, a Deputy Superintendent of
Police (DSP), said the embittered villagers found the suspects that
night in the bush.
Incidentally, the man who was still armed with the AK 47
rifle was tactically overpowered and dispossessed of the gun by the
farmers, a source close to the police told this reporter.
It was also learnt that the herdsman reported the encounter
to other Fulani men in the bush that were said to have teamed up and
launched an attack on Dungun Mu’azu before dawn.
However, a quick response of the Katsina State Police
Command that mobilized detectives and mobile policemen in neighbouring
Dandume Local Government Area following a tip off, reportedly curtailed
the blood bath in the village.
Mr. Agaisa told leadership that the deployed
policemen discovered two slain persons and six critically injured
persons at Dungun Mu’azu that night, adding that five more corpses were
discovered in the bush the following morning while one of the critically
injured villagers died that fateful day.
He assured that a re-enforcement of police and soldiers in
the area had since restored normalcy in the zone while efforts were
still in progress to apprehend the fleeing suspected gunmen.
The police public relations officer in Katsina also
confirmed that the AK47 seized from the Fulani herdsman was recovered by
the police while five persons who were rushed to the hospital were
responding to treatment.
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