Tuesday, May 24, 2011
[size=14pt]30 feared killed as herdsmen raid Benue communities[/size]

From Simeon Nwakaudu (Makurdi) and Abosede Musari (Abuja)


Tsiga seeks better security

AGAIN, insecurity in Benue State worsened yesterday as a band of armed herdsmen invaded villages around Udei and Yelwatta communities in Isherev areas of Guma Local Council, leaving about 30 persons dead, with more than 10,000 persons displaced.




30 feared killed as herdsmen raid Benue communities

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Meanwhile, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Muharazu Tsiga, has attributed the death of the 10 corps members in the recent post-elections violence in Bauchi State to national insecurity rather than a problem with the scheme.


Tsiga, who spoke in an interview with journalists in Abuja yesterday, explained that the major problem was with national security, which should be urgently addressed rather than call for the scrapping of the scheme or for regional posting of corps members.


Also in Makurdi, the police averted a riot when members of the opposition party almost lynched a young man suspected to be a thug.


He was accused of being one of the suspects who killed an ACN supporter, Ezekiel Yusuf, at the Angwan-Jukun area on Sunday evening.


An eye-witness, Terna Igbasue, who is taking refuge in Makurdi, told The Guardian that the herdsmen moved into the village at about 8.00 a.m. when most people had gone to farm.


He said that when they invaded villages in the area, they started setting homesteads ablaze and killing those who were at home, especially the aged and children.


According to him, other villagers on their farms were alerted that there had been an invasion of the villages around the area. He stated that at that point, the armed herdsmen were already shooting and marching towards the farms.


He said: "Many people escaped from the farms and headed for the federal road to avoid being killed by the herdsmen. Some persons who were not fast enough were killed on their farms."


Igbasue claimed that the herdsmen had sent earlier message to the communities in the area that they would invade them on a revenge mission over a misunderstanding that arose between farmers and the herdsmen.


When The Guardian drove along the Makurdi-Lafia, hundreds of displaced persons were trekking towards Daudu town, a major Tiv settlement on the route. Other displaced persons boarded pick-up vans and headed to Makurdi.


Also, when The Guardian called the State Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Mohammed, an aide who picked the phone said that he was in a security meeting.


On Monday morning at about 11.00 a.m., opposition youths accosted one young man suspected to have participated in the Sunday's killing of Yusuf. He was about being lynched when police patrol teams alerted by neighbours arrived the scene and arrested some suspects.


Despite the arrests, some youths held a peaceful demonstration in the area, denouncing Yusuf's killing.

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/may/24/4.html

4 words to every Souther Nigerian: DON'T F**K WITH FULANIS.

They are coming down south fast,

henry101:

They are coming down south fast,

After Benue, they will conquer Kogi and head towards Nsukka and the rest of Igboland. 

An encounter between Fulanis and Igbos of SE will produce reverberations across the Globe.

The Tiv and other middle belters have been leaving and tolerating the dominance of Fulanis for a very long time . They know where these fulanis live in the forest but don't have the will power to face them headlong .

However Igbos are not as laid back as the middle belters , the last influencial ruler of the fulanis was killed by 27 year old igbo boy from Asaba (Nzeogwu C.K). And igbos are natural head hunters.
The likes of Osisikankwu and his gang or even the original Bakkassi boys would have been of much benefit in this kind of encounter.

asorocker:

An encounter between Fulanis and Igbos of SE will produce reverberations across the Globe.

The Tiv and other middle belters have been leaving and tolerating the dominance of Fulanis for a very long time . They know where these fulanis live in the forest but don't have the will power to face them headlong .

However Igbos are not as laid back as the middle belters , the last influencial ruler of the fulanis was killed by 27 year old igbo boy from Asaba (Nzeogwu C.K). And igbos are natural head hunters.
The likes of Osisikankwu and his gang or even the original Bakkassi boys would have been of much benefit in this kind of encounter.

hmm

The Jihardists will not stop until they are stopped.

But who's gonna stop them?