PHOTOS: Soldiers open fire at protesters in Plateau State...

On Tuesday, July 20, some youth from Bokkos local government area of Plateau state blocked the roads and took to the streets as a reaction to the murder of a first class traditional monarch in the area.
Reports just coming in have it that Soldiers serving with the Special Task Force (STF) on Jos crisis on
Thursday, July 21 opened fire on rampaging youth who blocked a road in Bokkos in protest of the killing of a monarch and a night attack there Wednesday. At least one person was killed and five others injured, an eyewitness stated. Mangai Haruna said the youth refused to allow soldiers into the area, pressing them instead to provide the killers of their kinsmen. “They shot on our people, one of them died instantly,” Haruna said. The weekly Thursday market in the town could not open due to the crisis. A spokesperson for the STF could not be immediately reached. Plateau State has enjoyed relative calm in recent times after years of ethno-religious conflict that claimed the lives of thousands. On Wednesday night, unknown assailants reportedly destroyed homes and attacked residents of the area. In protest, youth barricaded roads leading to the area in the morning of Thursday, July 21and blocked the convoy of the police commissioner of Plateau state, Adekunle Oladunjoye. Mr. Oladunjoye was later allowed in. In addition, the deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of operations Habila Joshak, is presently in Bokkos. Joshak was deployed from Abuja to ensure the arrest of the killers of the monarch. At Bokkos council police station where the youth gathered that Joshak sued for peace, and assured that masterminds of the crime would be arrested and prosecuted. He also visited the palace of the late paramount ruler where he pleaded for calm.