Benue State Community Calls For Help As Armed Herdsmen Kill Scores Of Residents
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March 21, 2024
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The attack, it was gathered, started on Wednesday and did not stop till the early hours of Thursday.






Many people have been reported killed by suspected armed herdsmen in Ugbobi community of the Apa Local Government Area of Benue State, following a coordinated attack on the community.

The attack, it was gathered, started on Wednesday and did not stop till the early hours of Thursday.

According to Channels TV, a community leader, Eric Amodu, said the threat of the attack on the community had been rife for over a week before the violent attack started last night.



He said, “We have been living in fear and apprehension from possible attack by suspected herdsmen given their influx to the community and its surroundings. But last night, the violent attack began with our people being killed in numbers while many of them fled the community.



“Just as they (residents) made to see what is left of the community, the second round of attack by the armed herders began, and as I speak, all the people I have been calling to get their whereabouts are not responding to calls.



“We urgently need help from security operatives and the government at all levels before we are all consumed.”



When contacted on the renewed killings in the local government area, the police spokesperson, Sewuese Anene, said the Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Adesina, visited Apa last week to ensure adequate troops' deployment but admitted that her office was yet to get information on the latest attack.



Benue State rural communities have become unsafe for farmers and villagers alike in the last couple of years due to persistent herdsmen attacks, in what has become a fashion across the state, leading to the displacement of native dwellers from their ancestral homes and farmlands.

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You are calling on people who waste their time on irrelevant things to divert attention.

Look at president. No direction nothing new from past administrations.

God help Benue people.

The continued attacks on rural communities in Benue by armed herdsmen is a disturbing trend that requires urgent attention from the government and security operatives to prevent more loss of lives and displacement of natives.

Omenka
OmenkaLives
BenueJosh

BitterTruth01:
Omenka
OmenkaLives
BenueJosh

The mumus have crossed state lines into Enugu to hide at 9th mile! from there they will be abusing ESN and Simon Ekpa providing a semblance of security for ndigbo!

This is a great platform for citizens to voice out and expose corruption in Africa, kudos to Sahara Reporters for their brave efforts!

We here on nairaland feel deeply for the benue state people

But until our fellow nairalanders from benue state start being vocal about it we will soon start reading the news and skipping RIP's

I'm speaking of nairalanders like Machinegun91, benuejosh, mannababaqgrillz, eriggs etc who are from benue and are very avtive on nairaland but always develop acute glaucoma whenever they encounter threads such as this current type 🙄

This is heartbreaking news, my heart goes out to the victims and their families. The government needs to take urgent action to protect innocent lives.

What is the government of Tinubu doing to address this problem?

BitterTruth01:
Omenka
OmenkaLives
BenueJosh

Unfortunately Benue is already a conquered territory.

ARMED HERDSMEN ARE WORKING FOR MACBAN AND BMFBOKOISWA. PROSCRIBE MACBAN, BMFBOKOISWA AND THE ROAMING HERDSMEN AND STOP WASTING LIVES IN BENUE, PLATEAU AND THE SOUTH OF NIGERIA.

There will be no press statements.

There will be no press releases.

There will be no condolence visits.

There will be no retribution.

There will be no justice.

Benue state, Plateau state and some other states in Nigeria have suffered for years in the hands of these terrorists (they are terrorists - call them what they are) and the Nigerian government and the army have not done what the law says they should do.

Who will speak and act for those in Benue? Are they not Nigerians too?

I feel so sad reading this. The people of Benue have been pushed to the wall for too long. This is bad

The call for help is from the same people killing them. The army is filled with FULANI S.

God bless MNK forever.

SeeWahala:
We here on nairaland feel deeply for the benue state people

But until our fellow nairalanders from benue state start being vocal about it we will soon start reading the news and skipping RIP's

I'm speaking of nairalanders like Machinegun91, benuejosh, mannababaqgrillz, eriggs etc who are from benue and are very avtive on nairaland but always develop acute glaucoma whenever they encounter threads such as this current type 🙄

have you eaten today? Tswar kya

The "Rambos" are in the east shooting at empty houses and threatening the winds...
Benue ain't a border or coastal state and these killer Fulanis can be rounded up and exterminated but no,the east and Niger Delta is very easy to harass and oppress..



Kwantiri

BiafranPatriot:
When is TINUBU reading a worthless speech concerning the killing of Benue people?

Is it only when the Army dies he reads brainless speeches?

Useless pampers wearing dinosaur.

SOUTHERN UNITY BEGGARS will abandon this thread ..


Useless wankers

Thunda will surely faya those hypocrite southern abominations

The RAMBOs have already left Benue because it's already a conquered territory.

Benue and SW don't need Army presence as local Fulani Herdsmen have brutally annexed the worthless region of the SW.

Imagine killing 2 OBAs and TINUBU their brother keeps mum.

It's says alot..

Justiceleague1:
The "Rambos" are in the east shooting at empty houses and threatening the winds...

Kwantiri

This is the same pattern Buhari used in his administration and lots of lives were lost. How Thief'nubu isn't making any reasonable effort to secure the people of Benue state is heart wrenching.

How long are they gonna die in Benue state before drastic action is taken by Thief'nubu? Sincerely, the man is completely cut off from the reality.

Such a foolish idiot Nigerians got as president.

COMRADES, may the souls of the departed ones rest in peace

God1000 you can see what the Nigeria's wing of Hamas is doing to your people