A coalition of youth groups, under the auspices of Plateau Indigenous Youths Nationalities, has slammed the Fulani community in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state over recent allegations of intimidation, harassment, and sexual assault of women and girls by operatives of the Directorate of State Services, DSS.
The Fulani community in the Kwok community in Barkin Ladi LGA had last week accused the DSS operatives of infringing on their rights following a spate of raids conducted in the community.
A community leader, Yusuf Muhammad, who revealed this in a recorded video shared on social media platforms, said the security operatives have been raiding the Fulani community regularly, during which they would assault the people, destroy their property, arrest people indiscriminately, and sexually assault women.
Muhammad said that apart from intimidating and harassing residents of the community during such raids, the DSS operatives subject them to different kinds of violence, and in the process, they steal their valuables.
“We are making it known that DSS operatives have been intimidating and harassing our people in the Kwok community in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State on several occasions. Our people have not committed crimes that will warrant these raids where they arrest our people indiscriminately, steal our properties, and sexually assault our women, including married women,” Muhammad said.
However, the coalition made up of 11 indigenous youth associations in Plateau State, during a press conference held in Jos on Wednesday, debunked the accusations, which it said were not only
