Agatu youths block Oweto–Otukpo highway, protest persistent killings in Benue

Hundreds of young radical from Agatu Local Government Area successful Benue State connected Saturday staged a protestation on the Oweto–Otukpo highway, blocking the roadworthy adjacent the Oweto Bridge to request decisive enactment implicit the continued sidesplitting of residents by suspected equipped herders.

The demonstrators, operating nether the banner of the Agatu West Peace and Unity Forum, began their enactment connected Friday and maintained the blockade for respective hours, causing dense postulation congestion connected the engaged way and drafting nationalist attraction to the worsening information concern successful their communities.

Waving placards bearing messages specified arsenic “Stop Agatu killings now,” “Save Agatu now,” and “We bash not request Fulani successful Agatu,” the protesters urged some the Federal Government and the Benue State authorities to intervene swiftly and reconstruct bid successful the troubled area.

Addressing the crowd, National Youth President of the Agatu West Peace and Unity Forum, Mr. Ebi Lucky, said repeated attacks by suspected Fulani militias had forced galore residents to wantonness their ancestral homes.

He added that a ample fig of displaced radical person been surviving successful impermanent shelters on the banks of the Oweto River for much than 2 years.

“Our radical person been successful thi...