15 people have been slain in the Logo Local Government Area of Benue State by alleged armed Fulani herdsmen.
On September 21, 2022, at around 11:00 p.m., the herders attacked two settlements in Logo: Mchia village in the Mbagber council ward and Mou village in the Ukemberagya/Tswarev council ward.
According to a local who did not want to be identified, the assailants invaded the villages between 11 p.m. and midnight on Wednesday, killing twelve people in the Mchia community and three in the Mou village, and injuring roughly 13 others.
According to Wale Abass, the state’s commissioner of police, who verified the assaults said 10 persons were murdered and 8 were injured.
“Mr. Atsagba Oliver Chion, Mr. Mchivga Utume, Mr. Bemdoo Hindi, Mr. Aondosoo, Mr. Vihishima Mbanomso, Mr. Gwa Joseph, Mr. Shinku Ngimsho, Mr. Luter Yeke, Mr. Sonter Chieam, Mr. Aondosoo, and two others were killed at Mchia”.
“The three victims confirmed to have died at Mou village are Mr. Lanem Dooior, Mr. Iorungwa Andy Uchir, and Emeka Ike (an Igbo trader)”
In addition, the herders shot and injured Shaorga Akaaume, Ubugh Obele, and Aondosoo Aondoakaa.
At the NKST hospital Anyiin, the victims are now receiving medical care.
Meanwhile, the Benue State House of Assembly member for the Logo State Constituency, Hon. Kuranen Yagba, has vehemently condemned the ongoing attacks on several villages in his district by alleged armed Fulani herdsmen.
Hon. Yagba who decried the renewed attacks on the armless farmers in Logo local government area says, the attack which is coming after the armed Fulani herdsmen had launched unprovoked attacks on many villages in Tombo council ward of Logo LGA, rendering many people displaced from their ancestral homes is not only unacceptable but wickedness of the highest order.
He wondered why the armed Fulani herdsmen would resort to killing of innocent lives even in their sleeps during raining season simply because they refused to give their farms for cattles to graze on and calls for adequate punishment of the perpetrators of such evil act by relevant security agencies.
He expressed worry that, at a time his constituents should be carrying out farming activities, they are been chased out of their farms and calls on the Federal Government and other relevant agencies to expedite action on putting an end to the continued killing of farmers across the country.
The Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts called on the army, mobile police men and other security operatives deployed to Logo local government area and Gaambe-Tiev in particular, to rise up to their responsibility and arrest the perpetrators of such evil act to face the wrath of the law.
He restates the resolve of the Benue State House of Assembly never to repeal the Benue State Open Grazing Prohibition law which has the full backing of the entire Benue People, urging the Fulani herdsmen grazing in Benue State to obey the Benue People’s law for a peaceful coexistence.
Yagba condoled with the many families that have lost their love ones in the attacks and prayed God repose the departed souls.
