[size=18pt]12 Died, 5,000 Displaced In Benue Land Disputes
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IN one week, 12 persons have been killed in rural communities in Benue State in three land disputes occurring in four local councils and another 5,000 displaced.
The councils where fighting has been raging over arable land in the last week are Vandeikya, Konshisha, Gwer and Kwande local councils. Farmers in the areas have been neck-deep in the struggle to take over stretches of fertile land.
As at Thursday, four persons were feared dead in a renewed land crisis between Kendev community in Konshisha Local Council and Mbatsenge community in Gwer Local Council after days of fighting over the control of border farmlands between the two councils.
Fighting broke out last Monday after a farmer from one of the communities allegedly planted crops in a disputed farmland. The farmer died from an attack by members of the neighbouring community.

The incident sparked off hostilities between the two communities, leading to the death of three other persons on Wednesday evening, when news of the fighting filtered into Makurdi, the state capital.
Several houses in the two feuding communities have been razed while over 200 residents have fled the areas.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Samuel Zaka, told The Guardian on Thursday that the legislature would meet with the chairmen of Konshisha and Gwer councils to find lasting solution to the recurring land crisis.
When contacted, the Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Mohammed, said the command was yet to receive the details of the conflict and the casualties recorded.

Five persons were feared dead in a land crisis involving two communities in Vandekya council after fighters from two communities used sophisticated weapons and mercenaries to boost their chances of taking over the stretch of land.
The land crisis between Mbagur and Mbawua communities in Vandeikya escalated yesterday when youths from Mbagur, in liaison with their elders, attempted to execute a Supreme Court judgment that ceded the land in contention to them.
Another crisis at the Nkumun District of Kwande Local Council has claimed three lives, and hundreds of residents displaced.


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hmmm - news caster at it

blacksta:

hmmm - news caster at it

se ko si wahala?

whalai dey - plenty

I wonder whats their problem?