Young man who identified himself as a  400 level student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Jos, UNIJOS in Plateau state has given accounts how he was told to go and collect the dead body of his sibling on the phone by the attackers who on Wednesday were seen in a viral video that mobbed and stoned his sibling almost to death at an ever busy road near the permanent site of the University of Jos, accordingly, he said the victim who happened to be his younger sibling is also a 300 level student in the Department of Geology from the same University of Jos, saying, his younger sibling only went out around 8 or 9 on Wednesday morning to resolve issue with his bank account at Terminus area of the Jos city when he came under attack after the driver of the commercial tricycle or Keke he entered abandoned him half way and asked him to find way out for his own escape as the rampaging mobs took over the road.

According to the elder brother of the mobbed victim who also introduced himself simply as Nando, his younger sibling already sensing danger, called him on the phone, that the Keke driver had abandoned him half way before the junction of his house, that, he’s currently running on the street towards home, adding, the victim begged him to look for commercial motorcycle or Okada rider to advance towards his direction and wait at their street junction to help him home, but, while he made attempt to do as requested by his younger brother, the security operatives in the area prevented him, saying, they can’t allowed him go out because the situation in town was too dangerous. He said while he was looking helpless, he decided to put a call across to his younger brother, only for the phone’s call to be answered by the attackers who spoke to him in Hausa language that they have killed his brother, that, he should go to the scene to pick his younger brother’s dead body.

He said he started crying and a lot of people around started consoling him while the security operatives at the Senior Staff quarters gate still prevented him from going out until there is normalcy in the area. He said some sympathizers took him home from the point he was to the University staff quarters where his neighbours who came in to also console him started encouraging him not to cry again, with the optimism that, his younger brother is not dead. He said one of his neighbours thereafter asked him to report the issue at the police station, which they did and submitted the snapped copy of the victim’s student Identity card at the police station and returned home waiting for feedback from the police.

He said he was waiting on the police for feedback, he decided to login into his WhatsApp group chats, and behold, he saw a video of his younger brother being interviewed at a hospital bed inside an undisclosed medical centre and that was how he knew he was still alive and his whereabouts.

It would be recalled that we had reported that it may not be wrong to say lack of proper accountability by the Nigeria Police Force, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang is largely responsible for the daily killings in the troubled Jos city of Plateau state, this is probably glaring on Wednesday when a resident reported with a video evidence of a disturbing situation wherein a man was seen mobbed and stoned to death at a very popular and ever busy road apparently within the area or near the University of Jos Permanent site, group of attackers as seen in the video operated for some minutes if not up to an hour, used sticks, stones among others to hit the victim’s head until they were satisfied the man would have been dead, while vehicles were seen speeding off, and moving away from them with no resistance or timely response from the Nigerian security operatives even when the worsening security situations and tensions in Plateau state have become of global concern, this, the Plateau state command of the Nigeria Police Force in a statement on Wednesday, only said a disagreement ensued between some youths in Nassarawa Gwong community of Jos North Local government area on Wednesday and caused minor tensions in the town, saying, unfortunately, some hoodlums and crisis merchants took advantage of the situation to cause fear and panic among traders and students within the university community; however, the Command in collaboration with other security agencies swiftly intervened, arrested the situation and restored calm in the area but the Nigeria Police Force command apparently kept mute on the now viral video of a man being mobbed and stoned to death in a brutal and highly provocative manner that can caused a reprisal attack, more so, as daily killings in the state are attributed to religious differences, although some persons said the victim was still alive but Sun Newspaper reported on Thursday morning that three persons including the victim were killed in the fresh violence that erupted in Plateau state on Wednesday.

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