Nigerian Forces Kill 50 Fulani Insurgents In Gun Battle In Nasarawa.

The Nigerian forces have recorded major success in the ongoing crack down on insurgents in some states of the North as troops on Thursday morning killed over 50 Fulani insurgents in Mararaba Giza community in Keana local government area of Nasarawa state in a gun battle.
Recent attacks in Nasarawa and Benue States has claimed over 200 lives and displaced thousands of the Tiv people of the states. This followed the deployment of troops and massive offensive operations by the Nigeria Army to the volatile regions.
Vanguard reported that in Lafia, killed Fulani insurgents numbering 10 were brought to the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, DASH, Lafia the state capital by a police pickup van and deposited at the mortuary while about 20 others were deposited at the general hospital Keana as well as several others still lying in the bush.
According to Vanguard, the military acting on a tipoff, launched an offensive on the terrorists' hideouts in Maraba Giza and Tse-Azer where they have taken over the ancestral home of the Tivs in Lafia and killed them in droves.
The report says that the Keana general hospital informed the military that the mortuary could no longer contain the number of dead bodies of the insurgents, hence the conveyance of the remaining ones to Lafia.
It was also gathered that sophisticated weapons were recovered by the military from the insurgents who were taken unawares during the attack where they have been taking shelter.
According to reports gathered from residence of Keana local government area, the military were seen taken over the town with about four armored tankers in other to ensure that the insurgents had no escape routes.
One of the residents  who pleaded anonymity said: “The military killed the insurgents and were able to recover plenty riffles from them and wonder at the development.”
“This part of the state has received and seen strange Fulani faces more than any time in the history of our existence in Keana and environs and we wonder where  they came from because they are not the normal Fulanis that we know. Most of these Fulanis that we see don’t even have cows and one continue to wonder what are their preoccupation as well as mission in the state,” added the source.
A military source according to Vanguard revealed that: “this people (Fulani insurgents) have taken over the entire villages raping children and women and killing, even our men at will and you think we will continue to allow them, no not in anyway.”
The Fulani insurgents have chased out the entire Tiv communities from their ancestral communities in Nasarawa and some part of Benue, leaving many taking their refuge in some part of the FCT, Niger, Kogi and Benue.
Confirming the attack, the secretary of the Nasarawa State chapter of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Mallam Mohammed Husseini, said over 30 of his kinsmen were killed in the operation.
Leadership reported that the head of the Fulani community in the area, Ardo Sodangi Audu, could not give a detailed account of what transpired as at press time but hinted that the casualty figure is expected to rise in the coming days.
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