Jos Crisis

One of the victims of the recent crisis in Jos, Plateau State, has narrated how her mother was gang-raped severally before life was snuffed out of her.
Narrating her experience to our correspondent on the phone, Esther Lonyen, said her mother, who was a food vendor before her untimely death in the hands of the early morning attackers, was gang-raped several times before her throat was cut by her killers.According to her, her mother’s killers came into their village, Jeji, in Jos South Local Government Area, in the early hours on Sunday and were killing and maiming people.
She said her mother, Mrs Loyen, had woken up early in the morning to make food for the day’s sales but in the cause of doing this, a group of people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen stormed their neighbourhood in a commando-like fashion killing people in large numbers.
“My mother went outside to cook food early in the morning on that day while I was inside the kitchen washing the plates for her but unfortunately, the Hausa-Fulani herdsmen stormed our village killing everybody. I was lucky not to have been killed because I was washing some plates for my mother.
“While my mother screamed, I rushed outside but I was very cautious and behold, about five Fulani men were having sex with my mother in the most violent manner. I hid underneath the table behind the door in darkness while the people carried out their dastardly acts. At the end of the rape, one of them, who was the last person to rape my mother pulled out a long sword (dagger) and slit my mother’s throat.”
After that, Miss Loyen said her mother’s body was abandoned while her killers went deeper into the village to kill more.
She added that many of her friends who were residents of Jeji community were killed by the attackers.
When she eventually came out of hiding, Miss Loyen said she was so terrified and lonely and that no one was in sight as the villagers ran in different directions.
The survivor stated that in her community, women and children were most affected, saying after the killing of her mother she saw corpses littered everywhere.
According to the traumatised survivor, some of the victims of the attack carried machete cuts all over their bodies, while some were slaughtered like goats and many others shot with sophisticated weapons.  
Sunday’s incident happened barely 24 hours to the meeting of former heads of state at the instance of the Elaigu Institute, to dialogue on the incessant Jos crisis.
The major black spots in the attack were Dogo Nahawa, Ratsat and Jeji, all in Jos South Local Government Area of the state.

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