Fear grips Benue communities over influx of armed herdsmen

Fear has gripped communities successful Tombo, Mbagber and Ukemberegya/Tswarev assembly wards of Logo Local Government Area of Benue State implicit a reported influx of equipped herdsmen.

Residents person expressed superior interest implicit alleged incidents of violence, including attacks connected farmers, the rape of women and the demolition of farmlands arsenic cattle are grazed successful agrarian communities.

Reports further bespeak that different radical of equipped herders has reportedly crossed the River Benue done Shaoo, Basham and Akor (west of Anyibe settlement).

According to section sources, the radical is believed to beryllium positioning itself successful the area, raising fears of imaginable attacks connected Ayilamo, Anyiin and Iorza towns.

A nonmigratory of Ayilamo who is besides a assemblage person successful Logo LGA, Joseph Anawah, said, “There is an influx of herdsmen and their cows into respective communities successful Logo since January. The herders came with thousands of their cows; so, this has heightened hostility successful the council.”

A resident, Mark Iorundu, said astir of the villages successful the assembly had been taken implicit by herdsmen and their cows.

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