A truck driver, Adamu Shu’aibu told Daily Trust that northerners are now in total panic in the South East, especially in Enugu and Imo states where the attacks escalated in the last few days.
“A friend who was a driver with Dangote was returning to the factory with an empty truck. He picked up some passengers by the roadside, amongst them were some Fulani. As he passed Ogbolo through one narrow road some young men block them, they accused the driver of conveying Fulani who they said were attackers coming to attack the Igbo.
“They made the accusation though none of the men was carrying anything harmful, they brought them down, about 20 of them including the driver and his assistants, they recorded them on video and killed them all. It was only one woman who was with them that they spared. They later burnt the corpses of the victims,” he recounted.
He added that on Thursday evening around 9pm at the Lopkanta area, some northerners who were on their way to Enugu were also attacked by some youth who blocked the road and requested money.
“They asked for N1000 from them but they told them they didn’t have money, they could only give them N500, the youths asked them to come out of the vehicle.
“As they open the door to come down, they opened fire on them killing two people instantly, while two others escaped with gunshot injuries. Those who escaped are now in hospital while the other two were buried at Lopkanta, this is the situation we are in. We need prayers,” Shu’aibu said.
He added that a driver and his assistant conveying sand to a road construction site in Imo State were also killed.
“There was another bus coming from Jos which was attacked where the driver and his passengers were also killed. The killings are too much and we don’t know what the government is doing to curtail it,” he added.
The South East zonal coordinator of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Muhammed Gidado, told Daily Trust that no less than 14 people were killed in the Dangote truck that was attacked.
He said northerners who are in the South East for their legitimate businesses are now in fear, “even the indigenous people are not spared talk less of us who they term as foreigners,” he added. (Daily Trust)
