BENUE State is being swept to the cliff of horror. At present, general banditry, mass killings and chaos have seized the state, reputed as one of Nigeria’s food baskets, by the jugular. A horrible time, killings that mimic ethnic cleansing are escalating. The bloodletting is traced mainly to daring killer Fulani herdsmen and local militias fighting for communal control. It is a lawless moment that demands more than cursory therapy being applied by the Nigerian state.
In the past three months, the upsurge points to an imminent disaster. Lamenting the renewed attacks by herdsmen in April, the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, stated that over one million internally displaced persons were in the IDP camps. In late April, sophisticatedly armed local Fulani herdsmen and their co-travellers from across West Africa, who have been defying the state’s law banning open grazing, reportedly invaded an IDP camp in Abagana, Makurdi, where they slaughtered seven persons.
For years, Benue has been under siege, assailed by murderous herdsmen attacks. In February 2016, herdsmen brutally massacred 500 persons in the state. After this, intermittent herdsmen invasions ensued, forcing the state to promulgate the law on open grazing, but on New Year’s Day in 2018, the herdsmen impudently exterminated 70 persons in two LGAs, including Logo. These days, there is a thin line between the herdsmen and bandits in Benue.
Both the Governor and d people of Benue are nothing but cowards. It's high time they realize help is not coming from anywhere. Arm ur people and let them do d attacking. Even if they die fighting there is no way they will not kill one or 2 of these Terrorists
You don't want to spend your security votes to mobilize the security forces that have been deployed to your state to deal with criminals instead you prefer to come to media to cry as if you don't know what to do.
Pls no woman should born me in this nigeria again
these are not bandits but fulani herdsmen
Nigeria under siege, join us June12Protest
How can the NBC direct all Nigerian stations to deactivate their Twitter profiles, when General Buhari and VP Osinbajo haven’t deactivated theirs and when Elrufai is still tweeting? Start from the head and the body will follow KeepItOn
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