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know us. They are still there in the villages,” he said. “They are still roaming about in their villages
without any problem. None of them was arrested.” 245
Despite ample eyewitness testimony and numerous leads, no one has been brought to justice for
the January 2010 massacres in Kuru Karama and surrounding communities or the January 2010
anti-Fulani pogroms. The perpetrators remain in the area, while many of their victims remain
displaced, without justice, struggling to eke out a living to survive.
Human Rights Watch asked the police, in March 2012, about the status of the investigations into
these specific cases. The head of State CID in Jos said he was not assigned to Plateau State at
the time, and since Force CID in Abuja handled the investigations, “I didn’t go back to find out
what happened.” 246 The police commissioner overseeing administration at Force CID in Abuja
said he had no information on the cases at that time. 247 In a November 2013 statement, the
police said that 340 suspects were arrested and charged to court for the January 2010 violence.
“Some of these suspects were those involved in the Tim Tim, Sabon Gida Forom and Sabon Gida
Kara [Kanam] crisis,” the statement added without providing further detail on specific cases. 248
Impunity for the Organizers of the Dogo Nahawa Massacre
In February 2011, two Fulani men were convicted in Federal High Court and sentenced to 21 years
for their role in the March 7, 2010 Dogo Nahawa massacre. The federal judge noted in his
judgment that the two men identified, in their confessional statements to the police, the names of
the individuals who contacted and paid them to participate in the attack:
[The two men] gave account of how they were invited from their respective
residences in Bauchi State to attend meetings in Jos East Local Government Area of
Plateau State. They disclosed how at the meetings the decision to attack Dogo
245 Human Rights Watch interview with Muhammed Nuru Abdullahi, Plateau State chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’
Association of Nigeria, Jos, February 2, 2012.
246 Human Rights Watch interview with Ibrahim Umar, assistant commissioner of police in charge of State Criminal Investigation
Department, Plateau State, Jos, March 12, 2012.
247 Human Rights Watch interview with Jonathan Johnson, commissioner of police in charge of Administration, Force Criminal
Investigation Department, Abuja, March 2012.
248 Letter from Nwodibo Ekechukwu, deputy commissioner of police, Legal/Prosecution Section, “D” Department (FCID), Abuja,
emailed to Human Rights Watch on November 28, 2013. The statement added that the federal attorney general “issued fiat to a number
of lawyers who are prosecuting the suspects/Accused persons,” and “[a]ll the cases are at various stages of prosecution.”
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