BENUE MAYHEM: FAKE SOLDIERS STORM CHURCH FOOTBALL FIELD, VILLAGES, KILL 10

His words, “We appeal to the federal government to bring these soldiers back. I am a title holder in Tiv land and I am crying because my people are being wiped out day by day, week by week”, and also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to show sympathy towards Benue people by giving the crisis the attention it deserves

“You have the Nigerian Army lying that ‘Exercise Ayem Akpatuma’ soldiers are still in our communities when in fact there are no soldiers. This clearly shows that the highest authorities in the land are not taking the matter seriously and only the president could rescue us from this situation.”

“He should sympathise with us and give this matter a priority as demanded by T.Y. Danjuma. We’re agrarians here and we cannot allow herdsmen to keep destroying our way of life to suit their own way of life.”

However, Governor Samuel Ortom on Tuesday called on the youth across the state to group themselves and protect their communities before it’s too late, just as a security analyst Chris Ngwodo affirmed that the resident’ sighting of attackers in military uniform was hardly new.

.“Villagers have raised this alarm in the past that killers are wearing military fatigues. This is not entirely out of the ordinary. Even the Nigerian Army has previously apprehended people wearing military fatigues”, Ngwodo said

He urged the Army to return troops to the villages and station them there for a protracted period, stressing that, ’this killings have gone on for too long and they just have to stop. Now we have to accept the situation where we have to use military to police communities. it is not normal. I am personally against it. But it is understandable when you have to deploy soldiers in areas where senseless killings are going unabated.”

Meanwhile, as at the time of this report, Benue State Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni, was yet to provide updates about the killings.