Thursday, July 24, 2025 was another gloomy day when 14 people, including women and infants, were killed when gunmen posing as Fulani bandits ambushed a car returning from Plateau State’s well-known Bokkos market.
According to witnesses who recounted the incident, the victims were attacked and slain along Chirang Road in the Mangor District of the LGA while they were returning home from the weekly market after conducting their business.
When the car came up, the heavily armed guys stopped the road and started shooting intermittently, killing the victims and wounding numerous more, according to one of the witnesses, who asked not to be identified.
Farmasum Fuddang, the chairman of the Bokkos Cultural Development Forum (BCDF), confirmed the incident in a statement released on Friday. He said it was shocking that some bandits would continue to kill innocent people in spite of multiple peace and reconciliation meetings and attempts to mediate a settlement between the council’s farming and herding communities.
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“The victims’ car was ambushed as they were leaving Bokkos town for the weekly market. Women and newborns were among the victims, Fuddang added in the statement.
The chairman declared that “this violence occurs despite various so-called peace and reconciliation efforts.”
Fuddang spoke bluntly when he accused Fulani militias of carrying out the attack, stating that it was obvious that they were to blame and that their objective was to seize control of the entire local government area, which is known as Nigeria’s potato headquarters.
