Plateau killings: Middle Belt youths reveal military conspiracy

The President of Middle Belt Youth Council, Emma Zopmal, has accused
the military of colluding with the Fulani herdsmen that carried out
the attack that left over 100 people dead in Plateau State at the
weekend.

He also advised the communities affected to resist the planned secret
burial of the victims because the corpses did not belong to the
security agencies and the government.


Zopmal, speaking with Punch, wondered why the military should keep the
corpse having failed to protect the communities at first.

He said, "The planned secret burial is a conspiracy, we know that
there is collusion between the security agencies and the Fulani
people.

"There is no way you can force people to bury their relations when
they are not ready for it. The dead bodies belong to them, so they are
not government's corpses that they will now decide when to bury them.

"The affected communities should not allow that to happen. The
security agencies did not protect them. Why should they decide the
burial for them?

"It doesn't make any sense, they are trying to cover up what they have
done. It is all part of the same attitude that the Nigerian government
has been exhibiting."