The Grave of Joseph Abwoi and his wife Asabat
About 500 inhabitants of Adu village in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State have fled their homes for ten days now after the village was attacked by gunmen suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen.
Adu village, about 220 kilometers from Kaduna, the Kaduna State capital was attacked in the early hours of September 1, 2913 by Fulani Herdsmen, leading to the death of at least nine persons.
When DailyPost visited the village on Tuesday, the villagers were yet to return.
At the Primary Health Care Centre in the village, only four mobile policemen were seen sitting in front of the clinic, while another patrol team of soldiers were seen in a pickup vehicle moving between Zankan village and Adu village.
Three of the villagers who braved to return to pick some items from their houses, James Moses, 29, Matthew Vincent, 47, and Gabriel Nkom, 25, told DailyPost that they still considered it a risk to return to the village in spite of the presence of the four mobile policemen.
Gabriel Nkom stated that seven of his relatives were killed in the attack, and gave the names of the victims as: Anthony Nkom, 60; Andrew Nkom, 37; Asabe Nkom, 45; Happiness Nkom, 15; and Menshack Nkom, 5.
Gabriel Anthony Nkom, the only surviving member of the Nkom family
Three other members of the Nkom family sustained injuries in the attack, Gabriel Nkom told Dailypost.
The names of the inured are: Shenyan, 3, Kawot, 5, and Godiya, 9.
Nkom, an apprentice at the Wadong Water Project in the town of Zonkwa, said it was a miracle that he and some few other family members escaped from the bullets of the Fulani attackers.
James Moses and Matthew Vincent, who corroborated the story of the killing of the seven members of the Nkom family also said two other members of the community, a couple, were killed in the attack.
They gave the names of the couple as Joseph Abwoi, 50, and Asabat Abwoi, 40.
Shenyan, 3, lost both parents in the attack, being taken care of by a family relation at the Kaura Rural Hospital
The fleeing villagers have moved to Sabon Gari, Manchok, and other safe towns and villages in Kaura Local Government Area, our source further stated.
DailyPost was at the Kaura Local Government Secretariat but could not meet both the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman as they were said to be out of office at the time.
However, Rev. Yakubu Gandu, a clergy in the area, told DailyPost that he was saddened by the unprovoked attacks on his people.
“There is the need for the Federal Government to brace up to this challenge of unprovoked attacks on our people and do all it can to stem this tide of terrorism by the Fulani”, Gandu said.
Gandu, who is the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Zakan Chapter, added that “the government should try to find out how these problems of insecurity can be brought to an end”.
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