In recent times the relative peace in Jos , Plateau State following recorded cases of clashes bothering on religious, ethnic, political and farmers/ herders crisis has eluded several communities as many families are left with the sour taste of sorrow, tears and blood owing to wanton destruction of lives and property .
Plateau State has continued to dominate several medium of national discourse over cases of recent violent attacks on local settlers some of whom are daily attacked by Islamic extremists or fanatics while many others have lost their lives in bloody carnage owing to clashes between local settlers and their respective host communities .
The extreme aversion to accommodate local settlers who for several reasons are dwelling in the once peaceful state has created deep-seated hatred and mistrust between local indigenes and settlers who migrated to the different communities in Jos, Plateau State simply for different reasons .
These extreme cases of aversion demonstrated by local indigenes against settlers from other regions of the country have continued to breed mistrust amongst several individuals as hardly a day goes by without news report about carnage or bloodletting being reported in the media circle.
Enoma Joseph and his family, like every other families who are settlers in the one of the several communities in Plateau State were victims of brutal violent clashes which eventually resulted in loss of lives and destruction of means of livelihood.
The young man who lived with his parents in Jos following his completion of the mandatory National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) after the succesful completion of his tertiary education in Nigeria, eked out a living from welding to provide for his 4 children and his long-term girlfriend and mother of his children.
Life in Plateau State for Enoma Joseph was reduced to one of sorrow, tears and blood when farmers/ herders clashes brewing in his Barom community culminated into ethno-religious crisis leading to destruction of churches and mosques in March 2022 as over 100 deaths were recorded.
The violent attacks which culminated in the loss of several lives in April 2022 in mid-day as sources of livelihoods destroyed by suspected religious fanatics of Fulani extraction with impunity were the main reasons for the displacement of many families including Enoma Joseph’s immediate family who were also declared missing days after the wanton destruction.
In the brutish nature of the violence and carnage which erupted in his community Enoma Joseph lost his 11-years old son, cousin and his elderly father to the bloody carnage while he was at work in the welding workshop and the remaining 3 children with their mother in her shop trading close to her husband’s workshop when the hoodlums attacked his house and set the building abaze killing all 3 occupants instantly
Left with no immediate alternative following the deaths of members of his immediate family while others were temporarily displaced during the ongoing bloody attack, Enoma Joseph and remaining surviving members of his family were declared missing in the community.
However, available information revealed that Enoma Joseph was reported to have mysteriously disappeared from his community in Jos as local settlers frantically make efforts to rebuild their lost hope in the conflict- ravaged community in Plateau State.
