News reaching ViewPointNigeria confirms that security officials in Jos have averted what would have been another bloody Sunday in the state. Reports affirm that well over 100 gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen stormed Rantya Lowcost community of Jos metropolis and shot sporadically at worshippers who were attending services in the churches in the area.

News reaching ViewPointNigeria confirms that security officials in Jos have averted what would have been another bloody Sunday in the state. Reports affirm that well over 100 gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen stormed Rantya Lowcost community of Jos metropolis and shot sporadically at worshippers who were attending services in the churches in the area.

According to a report filed by an eye witness on ground, military men in the area took up the challenge and successfully combated the assailants, repelling them back into the hills. A security man with one of the churches told journalists that the incident occurred around 10am when most of the churches were just about to commence service. He said the gunmen descended from the hills and pounced on the community and shot at hundreds of worshippers in the churches. He added that they were swiftly repelled by men of the Special Task Force (STF), who shot back at the attackers.

This new development signifies a change in tactics for the Fulani herdsmen who have traditionally attacked local villages in the outskirts of Jos. Their brazen attack on Rantya -which is a town within Jos metropolis signifies a change in strategy and could mean that other such attacks on isolated city villages may begin to occur. 

Our partners who are security consultants have continually pointed this change of strategy to the Government but no meaningly attention has been paid to it. 

More details to follow…………

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Approx. 100 Fulani gunmen attack Rantya Lowcost during Sunday Service