John Charles, Makurdi

Soldiers have sacked six villages in the Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State, killing six persons, including a pregnant woman.

This followed the killing of a soldier at the weekend by some youths in the area.

But the Brigade Commander of the 707 Special Force, Brig. Clement Apere, denied that soldiers attacked the people.

“The operation we conducted in the area was carried out in a professional way,” he said.

However, sources from Agatu, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday, explained that six villages — Olegadakolo, Ikpele, Otugologwu, Iwali, Okpanchenyi and Egba — were sacked by the soldiers.

At Egba community, sources said a pregnant woman was hit by a stray bullet, adding that the six villages had been deserted.

“This is genocide on our people, as I’m talking to you now, six villages have been sacked, children and women have moved out of the affected villages, while many people have been arrested by the invading soldiers,” a resident of one of the villages, who pleaded anonymity said.

The council’s sole administrator, Mr. Mike Inalegwu, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone, also denied the killing of people in Agatu communities but admitted the invasion of military personnel.

“There is no iota of truth in that, no one was killed, the military were only on the mission to recover their arms and ammunition,” he said.

Speaking at a press conference, the commander, 707 Special Forces Brigade, Brig. Gen. Clement Apere, said only one person was arrested.

http://punchng.com/soldiers-sack-agatu-villages-kill-pregnant-woman-five-others/

Fvck Ortum the slowpoke

I don't even know who to believe

But I am sure the Nigerian army are capable of carrying this out.

Mtcheeeeew

Sad story

This is regrettably lugubrious. Professionally hun? to be professional to Nigeria army is to kill and maim unarmed civilians. Investigation should have done the magic not to sack six villages. Haba why?

No good news had ever come out of this dreaded government

There's nothing gallant about Nigerian soldiers. They are worst set of army in the world.

All the do is call us bloody civilians and intimidate non-military persons even if they are wrong. You wear a camo in other countries the soldiers will hail and praise you for showing them support by donning the camo. You do such in Nigeria, you will be beaten like you stole the eagle from our coat of arms.

Imagine how long it's taking them to quell the Boko Haram insurgence. Useless and heartless beings called anim**ls

There is no such thing as Stray bullet. There are a number of things you must do before your round leave your rifle. Plus you have to wait for the most superior to command you before you engage.



RIP to the dead

funny country.

I always said it. Nigerian police, army, navy, etc are all COWARDS. If it's unarmed civilians, Oya see macho but the second it's militants, BH or even arm robbers, they carry tail running and fabricating story all over the media or showing us outdated weapons online to try and scare them.

I'll say it again...Nigeria is a complete, terrible joke

Just reminding one of the Odi massacre during OBJ's civilian rule.
Sack 6 villages without a single death, I clap for our Army's 'professionalism'

Nigeria soldiers n dia way of bullying civilians is heartbreaking cos no one cares to question dia actions

Nigeria Army be like: they are Fulani herdsmen in army uniform.






The impunity being perpetuated by these APC government is sickening

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In Nigeria, nobody cares anymore, not even the President

What else cant we see in dis country. I never supported d South and east in their vote against Buhari but now i think they were right. We now have three major terrorist groups, the boko haram, fulani and nigeria army

Nigerian securities lack intelligence gathering. One or two person will commit crime but when they go there,it is either they kill half of the villagers or arrest as many as possible then somebody will tell me that Nigeria is progressing.

our soldiers.are yet to sack herdsmen

This is disappointing, Punch is also towing the line Vanguard in unprofessional journalism.
The council chief denied the death of anybody, yet Punch put it in the headline without finding out the deceased name and intervening her family.
They didn't even try to quote any source for their story, the writer just stated it as if he was an eye witness especially in that first paragraph.
Honestly the people carrying misinformation are doing as much damage by creating unnecessary anger and hate in people's minds which may lead to carnage in the future. Uganda is a typical example.
I condemn the soldiers act though if they really did what they did.

Jerryojozy:
This is regrettably lugubrious. Professionally hun? to be professional to Nigeria army is to kill and maim unarmed civilians. Investigation should have done the magic not to sack six villages. Haba why?

same professionalism metted on a cripple recently


seems our army has redefined professionalism

This is brutal

Not an atom of intelligence in our military. They do everytin by force.

I used to have an uncle in the army who was supporting a football club, I said sumtyn about his club on my own wall and he was threatening me to delete the post. I had to delete the slowpoke and block him out rightly.

See we have the dumbest military personnel in the world and there stupid way of handling tins actually calls for a grt concern.

They have started again. Mad people.

Sad.

Ha!

Its jihardist dressed as army! They are carrying out their jihad war on christians.

Which ammunitions are they recovering?? Fulani terrorist ravaged the agatu people army did nothing and arrested no one. Now I guess the agatu's are arming themselves against any fulani terrorist attack and army is killing them.

Christians be vigilant!! This islamisation jihad plan is real and happening already oooo!!

This is unacceptable.

The Nigerian armed forces need to be careful how they go about "avenging" the death of their colleagues.

If youths in the area killed one of yours, what's the big deal in carrying out a thorouggh investigation to discover those behind the crime and punish them as necessary? They cant go about dishimg out such blanket punishments

It happened in Odi.

It happened in Zaki Biam.

It has happened again.

Enough of the nonsense.



Edit:

As usual, they just cant spare a momemt to read before commenting. They cant wait to cash out their wailing mavros.

What has the incident got to do with herdsmen?

Ortom is the cause of this problem.

He ceded a part of Agatu land to herdsmen so that they can graze which the Agatu people didn't find funny.
They attacked a police Station first, then attacked an army checkpoint which led to the death of one soldier.
This is actually a reprisal attack by the army and Ortom fuelled it because he said the army should fish out the culprits

omenka is that not your village, sarki the zombie is that not your government.
a Storm is coming.....