Metro Benue: Herdsmen Intensify Attacks, Bloody Ethnic Clash Looms - Premium Times

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Premium Times has a report calling for something urgent to be done to end herdsmen's attacks in Benue state as a bloody clash is imminent in the area.

Benue is known as the food basket of the nation as it produces food staples in large quantities. But between 2010 and now, the level of food and cash crops production has significantly reduced due to persistent invasion and displacement of farmers across the state.

Except Gboko in Benue North-east Senatorial District, the killer herdsmen have attacked all the other local government councils in the state.

A Benue citizen, John Teremun, lambasted the military and the police for not doing enough to stop Fulani herdsmen from invading towns and communities in the state.

“They offer far too many excuses for their inability to prevent the herdsmen from launching attacks on our people and communities. That is why we are saying that the government is not doing enough to help us,” he said.

Already, a clergyman, Dave Ogbole, has formed a group known as Movement Against Fulani Occupation (MAFO), to campaign against the atrocious crimes perpetrated by herdsmen in the state.

Ogbole said the relationship between Fulani herdsmen and Benue people started deteriorating in 1990 and between 2013 and now, over 1, 000 persons had been killed and still counting.

Governor Samuel Ortom has raised alarm several times that his state is under siege from herdsmen.

“We’ve heard the herdsmen accusing our people of killing their cattle which is not true. But even if it were true, does that give them the right to go about killing innocent people?

“I cannot understand how we could live in a country and people come in to invade others. They go about it freely and there is no sanction against them. The level of impunity exhibited by the herdsmen is very worrisome.”


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