Persons who are displaced as a result of herdsmen attack in Gan-Gora, Zangon Kataf Local Government area of Kaduna State have to come out from their places of refuge to receive help from donors and visitors on philanthropic visits.
The community suffered two different attacks in July and August this year where up to fourteen (14) persons lost their lives and over fifteen (15) injured as well as hundreds of houses and other properties burnt by the attackers.
So far, Humanitarian workers have been going there to offer relieve materials for the surviving victims.
In an interview various affected victims in the attack narrated their ordeal which they said it’s quite unbearable.
Na’omi Yakubu is the wife of Yakubu Yashim a wanted victim by the fulani attackers who invaded Gan-Gora. According to her the attackers are known faces who employed the use of other mercineries. In her “….we were just in our rooms when we heard the sound of guns from different angles of the community, we then move out of our homes and started running, honestly our community have been destroyed and many people killed. ….. I was lucky my family escaped…. Those that took cover within the community told us that the Fulani attackers came looking for my husband Mr Yakubu Yashim…. My husband who was nicknamed Taure by the fulani is now hidding… On the day of the attack, they entered our house shouting; where is Taure, where is Taure…. our neighbors saw them while hidding, they said they are looking for my husband, his relatives to slaughter them….”
“…..The gang leaders of the fulani attackers are two and we know them, they are called Yakubu Aruwa and Aminu, Aruwa is very close to us, his Fulani parents bore him in our land, he grew up on my family’s land, we watch him grow here in this community, we gave his parents the land and there, they gave birth to him (Aruwa)…he led the attackers to our house to come and kill us, but thank God we escaped…..”
Another resident of Gan-Gora Benjamin Shem Shemang, said his entire household who survived the attack are now residing in an internationally displaced persons (IDP) Camp in neighboring town, Zonkwa.
He said “…. On 27 July, last month precisely, the fulani, invaded our town here, during which many innocent people where killed and attacked, and my younger, Stephen Balat was killed and our house burnt, since then we were displaced. Presently, I am coming all the way from Zonkwa to this place in order to receive relieve materials, right now , we are displaced, many of us don’t have anywhere to go ….most of us have to run” he said “… we don’t have confidence in staying here most especially in the night…..” He added.
At the moment military special forces are seen on motorcycles patroling bushes and reportedly searching and disarming Fulani Herders.