No fewer than10 Tiv farmers were Wednesday feared dead in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State in a renewed attack by Fulani herdsmen.
According to a witness, the assailants attacked Mbasenge community in Mbagwen, in the early hours of Tuesday, killing and burning the houses and farmlands of their victims.
A survivor of the attack, Mbaungwa Igboko, who narrated his ordeal amid tears, said his parents, Igboko Ananya and Kahemban Ananya, as well as his brother’s wife, Mbalumunga Ananya, were killed in the dreaded attack.
He said two other persons, Kwaghsaa Iorbee and Orsaa Akosu, were also killed in his presence before he managed to escape.
“As I talk to you, there are many others we are yet to ascertain their whereabouts,” he said.
While calling for the intervention of the state and federal government in the matter, he lamented that the attacks were coming at the time of full scale farming activities.
A member of the House of Representative, representing Guma/Makurdi Federal Constituency, Mr. Emmanuel Jime, expressed displeasure over the recurrent insecurity situation in his constituency and the wanton killings and destruction of property in the area.
Jime said the National Assembly would have to take urgent steps to check the recurrent bloodbath being unleashed in some parts of Tiv land by Fulani invaders.
When contacted, the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer,PPRO, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Daniel Ezeala said the command had not received information on any fresh attack anywhere in the state.
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