By Peter Duru



Makurdi – Two personnel of the Operation Whirl Stroke were at the early hours of Sunday reportedly ambushed and killed by suspected herdsmen at Tseke village a border community between Benue and Taraba states in Logo local government area of the state.

Vanguard gathered from a source in the area that the attackers also burnt one of the patrol vehicle of the soldiers leaving some of them with serious injuries while others were taken captive by the attackers.

According to the source, “That community is a Tiv/Jukun settlement and it is a border community where you can hardly draw a border line between Benue and Taraba states.

“From what we have gathered so far, two of the soldiers were killed some where taken alive and one of their patrol vehicles was also burnt.

“Though we had that some of the soldiers were still unaccounted for which means that the casualty figure might be higher when the true picture of the attack becomes clearer.”

When contacted, the Chairman of Logo local government area, Mr. Richard Nyajo confirmed the attack.

Nyajo said, “the incident happened this morning (Sunday) at about 7 to 8am.

“It happened in Logo local government area. I gave them a base at Gov in Mbagegh Council ward of Logo local government.

So in the course of carrying out their peace keeping operation, they went into the bush and I don’t know whether the herdsmen heard about them, they came behind and entangled them and opened fire on them.

“They burnt one of their patrol vehicles, injured some of them, took some alive and killed one person but the second person was seriously injured and might not make it alive because he was in bad shape.

“Though one was said to be missing but by tomorrow we will get a clearer picture of the situation including the actual number of deaths because when an attack scatter a group of people like it happened and some are missing you cannot just conclude on the casualty figure.

“But surely some were killed and some were abducted. Though many among those that were missing escaped alive. But by tomorrow we will get a clearer picture of the situation.”

All efforts to confirm the incident from the operational base of the Operation Whirl Stroke failed as the personnel who picked the call in one of their dedicated numbers refused to confirm the attack.

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Ishilove:
These are mercenaries not herdsmen. Anyone still calling these brigands 'herdsmen' is either incurably gullible, living in denial or a flat out fool

oyb:


it serves the divisive oppressed Christians narrative that the opposition is spreading for 2019.

Ishilove:
These are mercenaries not herdsmen. Anyone still calling these brigands 'herdsmen' is either incurably gullible, living in denial or a flat out fool

oyb:


it serves the divisive oppressed Christians narrative that the opposition is spreading for 2019.

Ishilove:
These are mercenaries not herdsmen. Anyone still calling these brigands 'herdsmen' is either incurably gullible, living in denial or a flat out fool

Ojiofor:


Who hired the mercenaries and why does our military seems to be weak in fighting this so called mercenaries?

Ishilove:
These are mercenaries not herdsmen. Anyone still calling these brigands 'herdsmen' is either incurably gullible, living in denial or a flat out fool

35824L:
GEJ destroyed our military by introducing nepotism instead of merit. Just to assuage the 5%, he gave the position of CAS to them, and as typical of the jews, he settled down to loot and fill sensitive positions to fellow money-hungry jews. After the jews looted to their satisfaction, a riverian kinsman was given the position to loot on behalf of the water people. All these while boko haram captured large swathes of territory under the nose of the clueless commander-in-thief. Our military bore the brunt of it all and suffered a dip in standards and it would take some years for their gallantry and professionalism to be restored.

kettykings:
does Nigeria really have a military?

No cordone and search. No shoot at sight. No invocation of rule of engagement. No invasion of the herdsmen abode and you call that one a military.
And guess what? All the military chiefs and paramilitary chiefs are from the North and south western part of the country , what a country really , there was indeed a country

oyb:


it serves the divisive oppressed Christians narrative that the opposition is spreading for 2019.

kutchs:

You can afford to spew this thrash because you ain't anywhere close to the theatre of war. Those who are know who the bandits or whatever you chose to call them are.
Go to villages in Benue State and see how the attackers have left them desolate and now run the cows in what used to be people's farms and homes. The military backed by forces in Abuja continue to harass defenceless villagers and in fact disarm them even of ordinary kitchen knife leaving them vulnerable to attacks by the herdsmen.
You guys should pray these guys don't meet you, your stupid and uninformed views will change.

35824L:
GEJ destroyed our military by introducing nepotism instead of merit. Just to assuage the 5%, he gave the position of CAS to them, and as typical of the jews, the CAS settled down to loot and fill sensitive positions with fellow money-hungry jews. After the jews looted to their satisfaction, a riverian kinsman was given the position to loot on behalf of the water people. All these while boko haram captured large swathes of territory under the nose of the clueless commander-in-thief. Our military bore the brunt of it all and suffered a dip in standards and it would take some years for their gallantry and professionalism to be restored.

35824L:
GEJ destroyed our military by introducing nepotism instead of merit. Just to assuage the 5%, he gave the position of CAS to them, and as typical of the jews, the CAS settled down to loot and fill sensitive positions with fellow money-hungry jews. After the jews looted to their satisfaction, a riverian kinsman was given the position to loot on behalf of the water people. All these while boko haram captured large swathes of territory under the nose of the clueless commander-in-thief. Our military bore the brunt of it all and suffered a dip in standards and it would take some years for their gallantry and professionalism to be restored.

Ishilove:
These are mercenaries not herdsmen. Anyone still calling these brigands 'herdsmen' is either incurably gullible, living in denial or a flat out fool

Ishilove:
These are mercenaries not herdsmen. Anyone still calling these brigands 'herdsmen' is either incurably gullible, living in denial or a flat out fool