Gunmen attack Agatu community, kill traditional ruler, wife, others

Suspected gunmen connected Thursday nighttime attacked Olegabulu assemblage successful Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State, sidesplitting a accepted ruler, his wife, their child, and different residents.

Sources told DAILY POST that 1 idiosyncratic was besides injured successful the attack, which has thrown the assemblage into mourning.

The victims were identified arsenic Chief Momo Alexander Awodi, the accepted ruler of Olegabulu, his wife, Abigail Awodi, and their son, Boniface Ochowechi. Others reportedly killed see Mr Ochowechi Ochegwu and Mrs Deborah Ochowechi.

A root successful the area, who spoke connected information of anonymity, said the onslaught whitethorn not beryllium linked to herdsmen arsenic initially feared, but could beryllium a communal clash.

“From what we are seeing, this does not look similar a herdsman’s attack. Olegabulu is located betwixt 2 communities, and determination person been underlying tensions,” the root said.

The root further revealed that immoderate unfamiliar individuals were seen moving done the colony quadrate soon earlier the onslaught and were heard exchanging greetings successful the Agatu dialect.

“Some radical were seen passing done the colony quadrate and they greeted them successful Agatu. That is wherefore galore are confused astir what truly happened,” the root added.

He noted that the assemblage has enjoyed comparative bid for a agelong time, with nary grounds of specified convulsive attacks successful caller years...