By Emma Ella
About 50 persons have been reportedly massacred while several others injured in a new year bloody attack carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen on communities of Guma and Logo Local Government Areas of Benue State.
A source disclosed that the invaders came into Logo local government area at about 10 a.m. on new year day, shooting sporadically as worshipers who were coming out of a church.
According to him, areas attacked included Ayilamo, Turan and Gaambe-tiev.
He added that several persons are still missing while several houses and property worth millions of naira had been destroyed.
The sources added that three members of the newly constituted Livestock Guards, set up by the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, for the implementation of Anti-open Grazing Law were also murdered even as he frowned at the attitude of government in deliberately refusing to send patrol vehicles to the area.
Also another attack took place in Akor, Umenger and Tomatar in Guma Local government area, council area of the governor at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
Speaking with journalists at the end of an emergency security meeting held in Government House, Ortom said over 20 persons were killed.
But later at the Benue State Teaching mortuary where the corpses of the deceased were deposited, the governor expressed shock at the number of persons murdered.
"What I have seen here is far beyond the report we received. Several innocent people have been killed. Women and children murdered with their throat slit open. Many people are still missing while several houses have been destroyed. The whole of Guma and Logo have been turned into desolate lands.
"The security agencies in this country are aware of this because warnings were given out and this seem to be a tip of the iceberg," the governor fumed.
He frowned at the lukewarm manner the security agencies as well as the Federal Government is handing the issue and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rise up and give his people protection by showing that they are also, citizens of this country.
"We have told our people to be law abiding but there is a limit the people can go. This is not fair and right and we cannot accept it," Ortom lamented.
Some victims of the attack have been brought to the Benue State Teaching Hospital for treatment
According to him, areas attacked included Ayilamo, Turan and Gaambe-tiev.
He added that several persons are still missing while several houses and property worth millions of naira had been destroyed.
The sources added that three members of the newly constituted Livestock Guards, set up by the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, for the implementation of Anti-open Grazing Law were also murdered even as he frowned at the attitude of government in deliberately refusing to send patrol vehicles to the area.
Also another attack took place in Akor, Umenger and Tomatar in Guma Local government area, council area of the governor at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
Speaking with journalists at the end of an emergency security meeting held in Government House, Ortom said over 20 persons were killed.
But later at the Benue State Teaching mortuary where the corpses of the deceased were deposited, the governor expressed shock at the number of persons murdered.
"What I have seen here is far beyond the report we received. Several innocent people have been killed. Women and children murdered with their throat slit open. Many people are still missing while several houses have been destroyed. The whole of Guma and Logo have been turned into desolate lands.
"The security agencies in this country are aware of this because warnings were given out and this seem to be a tip of the iceberg," the governor fumed.
He frowned at the lukewarm manner the security agencies as well as the Federal Government is handing the issue and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rise up and give his people protection by showing that they are also, citizens of this country.
"We have told our people to be law abiding but there is a limit the people can go. This is not fair and right and we cannot accept it," Ortom lamented.
Some victims of the attack have been brought to the Benue State Teaching Hospital for treatment
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