According to Punch, Herdsmen attacks on four communities in the state's Birninkudu, Dutse, and Kiyawa Local Government Areas have been reported by the Jigawa Police Command. Eight victims of the attacks were hospitalized at the Dutse General Hospital in Dutse, the state capital, according to a statement released on Saturday by DSP Lawal Adams, the command's spokesman.
The statement read, “Information revealed that herdsmen in large numbers armed with bows and arrows, matchets and sticks invaded Baranda village and attacked the villagers.
“In his efforts for community engagement, conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Dutse emirate and the state as a whole, the Jigawa State Police Commissioner, Ahmed T. Abdullahi, alongside Squadron Commander 35PMF Dutse, Area Commander Dutse, and Divisional Police Officers of Dutse and Kiyawa Divisions visited four affected villages of Kalai, Waza, Baranda and Katanga in Dutse, Kiyawa and Birnin Kudu Local Government Areas over the recent hostilities between farmers and herders, where scores of people were injured and farmlands destroyed.”
Adams reported that the Commissioner of Police met with the farmers and herders to discuss the importance of cooperation, tolerance, and understanding amongst them as well as the necessity of refraining from enforcing laws on their own.
This occurred just one week after the Jigawa State Government celebrated the peaceful homecoming and mutual confidence between farmers and herdsmen in the State with a large ceremony at Kabak village in Kirikasamma local government area.