BY PETER DURU MAKURDI – Suspected Fulani herdsmen have reportedly stormed Gbemacha council ward in Gwer Local Government Area of Benue state, killing an elderly man and three others in a midnight raid on the community.

Vanguard gathered from an eyewitness that the herdsmen had in the last fews weeks moved into the community with herds of cows which destroyed several cassava farms in the area. “They development did not go down well with youths of the area who tried to resist them but were equally countered by the armed herdsmen who besieged the community in their numbers and sacked the locals from their homes.”

Speaking on the issue at Nigeria Union of Journalist, NUJ, Accountability briefing in Makurdi, the Special Adviser to the State Governor, Bureau for Lands and Survey, Prof. Jonathan Uever, who hails from the area, said the attack was unprovoked. Uever said, “they were not provoked in any way, from what I gathered from my people who have been giving me update on the crisis in the last three days, the herdsmen stormed Gbemacha council ward and everybody ran for their lives.

“They took over our community and broke into people’s houses, destroyed food barns and whatever food the they saw were burnt. “After that they went and hid near a popular well in the community laying wait for the people, the first person they saw was an elderly man, they shot and slaughtered him including three others

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/fulani-herdsmen-invade-benue-community-kill-four-sack-village/

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OMENKA

Let the host do the needful for these animals.. look for better (tagiri) I don't know the English name but it looks like Melon, is not edible cut it to two... make I know finish am..

this villages should stop provoking the Fulani herdsmen or expect more attacks

A fly that does not hear word follows the corpse into the grave..... FH just repent oHHHH God will revenge them some day for taking lives

The only way this menace can be curbed is to stop nomadic grazing because the fulanis will continue destroying farmlands with impunity which in turn will anger the farmers bringing about attack and counter attack

CROWNWEALTH019:
OMENKA

Ome gini?

You no go see am. Him dey yan dust for GEJ and ipob matter while his family is being slaughtered by his 'saviour's' army.