SENATOR, HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY MEMBER KILLED IN PLATEAU

SENATOR,
HOUSE OF
ASSEMBLY MEMBER
KILLED IN PLATEAU[br/]Gyang Dantong on sympathy visit
to Ruwhiku village in Bassa LGA
during a recent attack[br/][br/]Senator representing Plateau
North, Gyang Dantong and
Majority Leader, Plateau State
House of Assembly, Gyang
Fulani shot dead. A member of the
House of Representatives, Simon
Davou Mwadkwon, was also
seriously injured in the attack.
Senator Dantong Gyang Dalyop
was a PDP member and chaired the
Senate committee on health.
Nigerian senate spokesperson
Senator Ayinnaya Abaribe
confirmed the tragic event to
Naija Pundit. Our sources
disclosed that the murdered
officials were attacked as they
attended a mass funeral for more
than twenty men, women and
children killed in the area in a
gruesome attack launched by yet
unidentified gunmen yesterday.
The funeral was just concluded
when heavily armed men in
military uniforms descended on
the mourners, shooting at the
senator and other officials at
point blank range.
“It was a horrible sight,” said a
source who witnessed the tragedy.
“People ran helter-skelter as the
gunmen continued to shoot,” he
added.
For the past several years, Plateau
State has been mired in sectarian
bloodshed between armed groups
of Muslims and Christians.
Efforts to get the spokesperson
of the Special Task Force, STF,
Salisu Mustapha, were
unsuccessful, as his telephone
failed to connect.
About 22 people were reportedly
killed in an early morning attack
on some nine villages in the area
Saturday, while a raid by a team
from the STF on some Fulani
settlements reportedly also claimed
about 10 lives.
The late senator was a former
member of the House of
Representatives and two-term
member of the senate.
A medical doctor, the late senator
had his first degree in medicine at
the University of Jos, and a
masters in public health from the
University of Ghana.

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