The Berom Youth Moulders-Association, BYM, has rejected a report by the Plateau State chapter of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, alleging that a gang of “Berom Militias” attacked and killed three herders in the Tanjol community of Riyom Local Government Area of the state on Sunday.
MACBAN, in a statement issued by its chairman, Ibrahim Yusuf Babayo, had alleged that a militia gang made up of Berom youths had ambushed the herders while grazing their cattle and shot three of them to death while also injuring two others.
However, the BYM, in a counter-statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Rwang Tengwom, refuted the allegations, which were widely circulated on social media platforms by the media team of the Gan Allah Fulani Development Association, GAFDAN.
In the statement, BYM described the report as not only false, baseless, and misleading, but a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts in the attack on the Tanjol community, which Fulani terrorists actually perpetrated.
“The Berom Youth Moulders-Association (BYM), under the leadership of Barr. Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri is deeply alarmed by yet another calculated attempt to distort the truth surrounding the continuous terrorist attacks on indigenous communities in Plateau State.
“A Facebook account operating under the name Gafdan Media Team falsely claimed that three herders were ambushed and killed by Berom people around the Jol axis of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State,” the BYM statement said.
Tengwong stated that the wrong narrative was not only false but a regular propaganda often employed by
