Bloodbath as herdsmen attack IDP camp

Angry youths of Abagena community in Benue State on Tuesday morning blocked the Makurdi-Lafia road with dead bodies to protest the attack on the IDP camp in the community by armed fulani herdsmen.

No fewer than seven persons were confirmed dead with scores injured in the mindless and barbaric attack, almost a commonplace occurrence in the state.

A grieving Gov. Samuel Ortom described the attack as “inhuman, barbaric and unacceptable”, and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to live up to his responsibility of protecting Nigerians.

Ortom lamented that in the last two weeks, over 70 people had been killed in Makurdi Local Government alone, while various communities across the state were suffering from the atrocities of the same militia herdsmen.

Calling for urgent action against the herdsmen across the country, the governor said:“If the Federal Government had taken the issue of militia herders seriously, it would not have escalated to this level.”

Persecondnews recalls that Ortom had recently escaped death by hairsbreadth in the hands of the rampageous herders when he went to his farm.

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