The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), has given perpetrators a “last warning on the incessant attacks and killings of Northerners” in the region, saying it will no longer fold its hands and watch its people killed and their businesses destroyed, IgbereTV reports.
The AYCF was reacting to Tuesday’s attack by gunmen at the Abia Cattle Market where eight Northern traders and an unspecified number of cows were killed, while many others sustained injuries.
While condemning the attack at a press conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, the AYCF National President, Yerima Shettima, said the group was “seriously saddened and deeply concerned about the murder of Northerners resident in Abia, who are doing legitimate business.”
In a communique at the end of the press conference, Shettima said:
“We are also deeply touched by the report of killings of Northern traders, with scores of others sustaining various degrees of injuries following the senseless attack at the Abia Cattle Market on Tuesday
