Expdonaloaded News; Cultists set estate ablaze as gunmen storm Makurdi community

There was pandemo­nium in the early hours of yesterday as suspected cultists stormed the Gaadi Hous­ing Estate located on Ki­lometre 5, Gboko Road in Makurdi and set 20 apart­ments in the estate ablaze. This was even as residents of Adeke community scam­pered for safety following the invasion by yet-to-be-iden­tified gunmen, who stormed the area, shooting sporadi­cally for over one and a half hours.
The suspected cultists, ac­cording to eyewitnesses, were on a reprisal mission follow­ing the killing of one of them in the area a few weeks ago. They invaded the estate be­longing to the late Dr. Alex­ander Gaadi at about 1 a.m., bathed the whole premises with fuel and lit a match while occupants were asleep. However, no life was lost in both incidents. The over 50 occupants of the estate escaped with some of them sustaining injuries, but they could not pack their belong­ings before the whole prem­ises was engulfed in the in­ferno. Also, residents of Adeke started ran for their lives that night with some carrying their children through bush paths to safer havens in town. When Expdonaloaded Blog visited Gaadi Estate yesterday morn­ing, smoke from the razed es­tate enveloped the area, while the hitherto occupants of the estate and sympathisers were seen in groups discussing the matter. Also, Adeke community ,which houses the Mobile Police Barracks in Makurdi, had remained calm after the shooting spree which lasted for over two hours.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com.. Expdonaloaded blog gathered that the police immediately respond­ed to calls made by Adeke residents, who were trapped in their homes following the incident but it was not clear at the time of filing this report, who the gunmen were. Some said they were Fulani herders, while others claimed they were members of a Tiv rival group, who were fight­ing the locals in the area. Contacted, Commissioner of Police in the state, Hya­cinth Dagala, stated that there was a squabble between the Tiv locals and some Fulani herders in the area on Tues­day afternoon. “You know there was a problem in that area between Fulanis and the Tivs yester­day (Tuesday). The police even waded into the matter but it is likely that the at­tack may be because of that incident. For now, we don’t know who is responsible but my men are already there to maintain peace and I can as­sure you that the place is calm now,” he said. A resident of Gaadi area said the Gaadi Estate attack was a reprisal triggered by the killing of a member of a rival cult group whose wake keep was ongoing at the time of the incident. Meanwhile, younger brother of Gaadi, who is now the landlord of the estate, Mr. Davien Aondongu Gaadi, said his family members were asleep when the suspected cultists invaded the estate. He denied the allegation that a member of the family staying in one of the apart­ments in the estate was a member of a cult group. Gaadi, who disclosed that he had since reported the inci­dent to the E Division police station, Akpehe in Makurdii, posited that members of the family were taken unawares by the invasion and claimed that property worth millions of naira as well as cash were destroyed in the inferno. When contacted, the Po­lice Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), Austin Ezeani, con­firmed the incident, saying it was a reprisal attack by a rival cult group. The PPRO disclosed that one person had been arrested in connection with the burn­ing of the estate. He said in­vestigation revealed that the gang was after the cultist that they suspected partook in the killing of one of their mem­bers. It was further gathered that before the setting ablaze of Gaadi estate, three other houses at Terwase Agbadu, a village adjacent to Gaa­di, were also set ablaze by the same cult group.

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