The Adamawa State Government says it is working to provide answers to the questions surrounding how women protesting against perceived poor responses of security agencies to communal violence in Lamurde Local Government Area were killed.
Reports emerged on Monday, December 8, that seven of the protesting women were killed by soldiers deployed to check the violence which erupted in some communities in the LGA the previous day, Sunday, December 7.
The 23 Brigade of the Nigerian Army stationed in Yola, from which the said soldiers were said to have been deployed, had reacted on Tuesday, December 9, distancing its personnel from the killings and instead blaming it on one of the militia groups allegedly involved in the attacks on Lamurde.
However, members of the Adamawa public have not accepted the rebuttal by the 23 Brigade, with many residents insisting that the soldiers indeed rose against the very people they were sent to protect.
Speaking on the matter Thursday after a meeting with heads of security agencies in the state, the Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, sitting in for Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, who is currently out of the country, appealed for patience as the government is pursuing the truth.
“Government did not sweep the Lamurde issue under the carpet,” Farauta assured, adding that due investigation was being conducted and Adamawa people would be told the truth in the fullness of time.
She appealed for calm and cautioned both traditional and social media not to report without the facts.
Lamurde killings: We didn’t ignore allegation against army – Adamawa Govt
