BEROM YOUTHS MOULDER-ASSOCIATION COMDEMNS BANDITRY ON GAKO VILLAGE OF RIM COMMUNITY, RIYOM LGA, 4TH OCTOBER, 2025

While Nigerians were happily waiting to welcome His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a condolence visit to Plateau State, suspected bandits under the guise of Fulani militants attacked Gako village of Rim Community, Riyom LGA at about 8:55pm of Friday, 3rd October, 2025, resulting to the killing of Mr Bulus Dongo, aged 65.

The incident occurred. following an early warning alert sent out that villages of Rim and its environs are likely to be attacked, and lo and behold, the bandits, whose intent is to mar the atmosphere of euphoria the President’s visit.

The attackers are said to had crept into the village through a surrounding Corn farmlands at the backyard of the residences and opened gunfire at the deceased person, who died on the spot, leaving behind his wife and 6 dependants.

This kind of tragic incident has always followed any resistance staged against continuous mischievous grazing and willful destruction of farmlands daily meted out on Rim, Tahoss, Jol, Kwi, Wereng, Rahoss, Kogo and other borderline villages which appears to have been apparently allowed as part of the conspiracy of silence and complacency with sole aim of encouraging the ongoing banditry and terrorism waged by the Fulani militants in and around Plateau State and beyond.

The Berom Youths, therefore, condemns in its entirety the aggression perpetually waged by the armed Fulani, who have vowed to bring our people to extinction as well as abject impoverishment. We, in view of this, call on the Plateau State House of Assembly to, as a matter of urgency, set in motion a legislative proceedings halting opn grazing otherwise food security will increasingly be threatened.

The BYM also calls on residents of hamlets, villages and communities to intensify vigilance and report to security any suspicious movement.

By:
Bature Iliya Adazaram,
Secretary General

And

Barr. Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri,
National President