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• State Govt to legally arm newly formed Community Volunteer Guards By Peter Duru, Makurdi It’s been three weeks of bloodbath in what seemed a coordinated attack on communities in neigbouring Makurdi, Guma and Gwer West Local Government Areas, LGAs, of Benue state where armed herdsmen mindlessly bared their fangs on helpless farmers leaving close to 70 people dead and more than double that figure injured. The marauders also razed houses, food barns, and farmlands in some of the besieged communities leaving in their wake trails of devastation that may take the communities several years to recover. Perhaps the period under review may best be described as one of the worst in the history of the state in the gory slaughter of defenseless farmers and their family members by the bloodthirsty marauders aside the 2018 new year’s day coordinated massacre in Logo and Guma LGAs that claimed close to 80 lives sparking widespread outrage both locally and int ....
By Peter Duru, Makurdi It’s been three weeks of bloodbath in what seemed a coordinated attack on communities in neigbouring Makurdi, Guma and Gwer West Local Government Areas, LGAs, of Benue state where armed herdsmen mindlessly bared their fangs on helpless farmers leaving close to 70 people dead and more than double that figure injured. The marauders also razed houses, food barns, and farmlands in some of the besieged communities leaving in their wake trails of devastation that may take the communities several years to recover. Perhaps the period under review may best be described as one of the worst in the history of the state in the gory slaughter of defenseless farmers and their family members by the bloodthirsty marauders aside the 2018 new year’s day coordinated massacre in Logo and Guma LGAs that claimed close to 80 lives sparking widespread outrage both locally and internationally. ....
Daily Post Nigeria Published Following renewed attacks on Benue communities by militia herdsmen and the wanton destruction of lives and property, stakeholders across the state on Thursday endorsed the enforcement of the “Law to Provide for the Establishment of Community Volunteer Guards (Vigilante) and for the Purposes Connected therewith” which was enacted in the year 2000. Briefing journalists after the stakeholders meeting held at the Banquet Hall of Benue Peoples House Makurdi, Governor Samuel Ortom said the attacks had overstretched conventional security agencies in the state. He said stakeholders had mandated the state government to recruit more Vigilante and support them with logistics as provided by the law to help contain attacks on Benue communities. ....
As part of measures to tackle the security challenges in Benue, stakeholders in the state have sought the recruitment of Community Volunteer Guards. The demand followed a meeting of the stakeholders held on Thursday in Makurdi, the state capital with Governor Samuel Ortom in attendance. According to a communique issued at the end of the meeting, stakeholders commended the efforts of security agencies in tackling the security threats in the state. “The meeting considers the fact that in the face of banditry, kidnapping, herdsmen attacks and other crimes the Security Agencies have done well,” the communique partly read. “The meeting, however, resolved that the renewed attacks on the people by armed herdsmen have overstretched Security Agencies in the State. ....