Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday condemned Sunday’s bloody raid by Fulani herdsmen which killed over a hundred people in three local government areas in Plateau State .

In a statement which was issued in Abuja, Osinbajo said the Federal Government was pursuing those behind the heinous act, vowing to punish the perpetrators once they are apprehended. Part of the statement read:

“On behalf of the people and the government of Nigeria, those who lost their lives in the Barkin Ladi, Riyom and Mangu local governments in these past few days, it is so sad and so terrible that we can still have a situation were these sorts of things can take place and people are killed, so many people are killed in this manner.

”It is a very condemnable act and the president has said he is all ready to do whatever it takes to ensure that we not only arrest and find all of those who have done this very heinous act but that they are seen to be publicly punished for these actions”, Osinbajo said.

“It is so sad and so terrible that we can still have a situation where these sort of things can take place and people are killed. So many people have been killed in this manner,” Osinbajo added.

Authorities in the state have however imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the affected Barkin-Ladi, Jos-South and Riyom local government areas to curtail an escalation of the clashes which have raged on for years.