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 told the story to DAILY POST, the victims were attacked and killed along Chirang Road in the Mangor District of the LGA as they were leaving the weekly market after conducting their business.
When the car got close, the heavily armed men blocked the road and started shooting intermittently, killing the victims and wounding numerous others, according to one of the witnesses, who asked not to be identified.
Chairman of the Bokkos Cultural Development Forum (BCDF), Farmasum Fuddang, who also confirmed the incident in a statement seen by DAILY POST on Friday, said it was shocking that despite several peace and reconciliation meetings and efforts to broker peace between farming and herding communities in the council, some bandits would still go ahead to kill innocent people.
“The victims were returning from the weekly market in Bokkos town when their vehicle was ambushed. Victims included women and little babies,” Fuddang said in the statement.
“This violence occurs despite various so-called peace and reconciliation efforts,” the chairman said.
Fuddang, who did not mince words in accusing Fulani militias of launching the attack, said the fact was clear that they were the culprits, insisting that their goal is to take control of the entire local government area, which is recognized as the potato headquarters of Nigeria.
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