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For several months, the militants had monitored the movements of the soldiers in Bonta before finally reaching an agreement to kill them, witnesses said.
By Sumaila Ogbaje Abuja, April 9, 2021 The Defence Headquarters has dismissed the report of alleged massacre by the military in Konshisha area of Benue, following the killing of 11 troops by bandits in the area. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, described the report as spurious and misleading. Nwachukwu explained that there had been incessant cases of communal clashes in recent times among the people of Konshisha and Oju on boundary demarcation. He said that as part of efforts to resolve the crisis, the Benue government h...