Plateau youths protest, block major highway over bandit attacks, killings

Hundreds of youths and women drawn from from antithetic communities successful Barkin Ladi section authorities country of Plateau State connected Monday, staged a peaceful objection to protestation the incessant attacks and killings of their radical by suspected Fulani militias.

The protestation which was triggered by different brutal onslaught astatine Ratatis assemblage successful Dorowa Babuje territory of the assembly connected Sunday nighttime wherever implicit 10 radical were killed by the bandits, led to the barricading of the Jos-Mangu-Pankshin highway, which is simply a large nexus betwixt the authorities superior and the cardinal parts of the state, thereby causing superior postulation gridlock that spilled implicit to Jos and its environs.

A younker leader, Ishaya Gayus, who spoke to journalists during the protest, said the radical were bushed of the question of attacks carried retired by the terrorists which person led to the sidesplitting of their people, demolition of their homes and farmlands arsenic good arsenic outright sacking of immoderate communities.

Gayus lamented that section communities successful the assembly person suffered repeated attacks by the bandits portion the authorities and information operatives person done littl...