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40, 000 people have been displaced, following the renewed skirmishes
between Ombatse militiamen and Alago youths in Obi Local Government area
of Nasarawa State.When the the Nigerian Tribune visited Obi on Sunday, the whole community had been deserted . More than 1,000 houses were also found to have been burnt by the assailants.
The Zonal Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Yusuf Ayitogo and Osuko of Obi, Alhaji Dangiwa Ogiri Orume, were unlucky, as their houses alongside their cars were set on fire.
Some inhabitants, who went to the village in the afternoon to pick some of their belongings that were not burnt, joined the press crew in their vehicle to relocate them to Lafia, the state capital.
One of the survivors, who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune, Abari Isa, said about nine corpses were again found yesterday while searching the houses and that they have since been buried. He explained that many people were killed in the bush while trying to escape because they were outnumbered.
According to him, “they were more than one thousand because we have heard that they were coming and everybody was trying to pack his or her belongings. But as we are moving out they have stationed themselves in strategic locations and even inside the bush, so the casualty was very high. If not by the Grace of God because I did my marriage just seven days, so I quickly relocated by wife, if not, they would have killed us”.
“I am trying imaging what would happen to a 70-year old man I was unable to safe his life because I carried him but when I got tired, I had to drop him and told him that I’m tired, so it was a terrible situation”, he added.
It will be recalled that the latest hostility started, on Thursday, at Tudun Adabu village in Obi which later spread to Assakio in Lafia local government, on Saturday morning, with the Ombatse launching an offensive on the otherwise peaceful community, killing, maiming and destroying property along their alleyways.
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