Bako Ejeh News Today

With few days to the end of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, its inability to contain insecurity has remained a sore point. And one aspect of the pervasive insecurity is the resurgence of mindless killings in the states of Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa.

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday observed a minute silence to mourn 47 persons killed in Benue State by suspected killer herdsmen on April 6,  2023. This

The senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Comrade Abba Moro, on Wednesday, raised the alarm on the floor of the senate over the sustained

Senator Moro who Saturday visited the village for the first time after the attack expressed shock at the level of devastation in the community.

It was a bloody lead up to Easter in Nigeria. On April 8, Fulani herdsmen attacked Mgban in Benue State, located in North Central Nigeria.

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“The Federal Government must live to its responsibilities, we cannot fold our hands and watch these Fulani herdsmen come and take over our land. Everybody needs to rise up and nip it in the bud. We cannot understand where the country is headed."

  The death toll in Wednesday’s armed herdsmen attack on Umogidi village, Enetekpa Adoka district of Otukpo Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state has now risen to 51. This is just as angry youths of neighboring Apa LGA where a traditional ruler in Ugbobi community and many others were equally murdered by the marauders, took over the busy Otukpo-Oweto-Abuja road to protest the carnage and to demand the intervention of the government.

The Chairman of Otukpo Local Government Council, Mr. Bako Ejeh an indigene of the community who lost his son during the attack lamented that aside his son, his brother-in-law, and nephew were all killed by the armed herdsmen.