CP Ebenezer Shawulu Danmaman, the Commissioner of Police for Niger State, has been tasked with looking into the ongoing violent conflicts and agricultural land devastation in the Washi community in the Lavun Local Government Area.
Citizens of the Washi community made the request in a petition signed by Ibrahim Angulu, a lawyer based in Minna, which was sent to Damanman and made accessible to media on Saturday.
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Angulu regretted that members of the Kashikoko community, also of Lavun LGA, had destroyed priceless homes, farmland, and fish ponds belonging to Washi inhabitants.
The attorney clarified that there has been a breakdown in law as a result of the two communities’ repeated disputes over farmland.
According to the petition, inhabitants of Washi have been attacked by the Kashikoko people on multiple occasions, resulting in property destruction.
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“They (Kashikoko people) also armed themselves with machetes, cutlasses, dane guns, sticks, and carted away over eighty (80) bags of harvested paddy rice along with two pumping machines, five bags of fertilizer, four-inch pumping machines, and valuable items worth N10 million,” the petition stated in part.
Adam Zabokun lost his life in the incident, and six suspects were detained and brought to the Niger State Police Command’s State Criminal Investigation Department.
“Most of the suspects who were arrested are still at large, while three of them were charged with crimes and later released.”
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As a result, Angulu pleaded with the Niger CP and other state security organizations to protect the Washi population from the unrelenting attacks of the Kashikoko community.
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