FULANI HERDSMEN ATTACK BENUE COMMUNITY, ADAKA, KILL 3

Killer Fulani herdsmen yesterday (Saturday, December 17) carried out a fresh attack on Adaka community killing at least three persons in cold blood. Terver Akase, Special Adviser, Media & Publicity to the Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom made this known in a statement sent to SECURITY MONITOR

Adaka is a settlement about 20 kilometers on the outskirts of Makurdi Local Government Area which is also Benue’s state capital.

A resident of the community, Iorkohol Unande who survived the dastardly incident narrated that the attack was unprovoked.

He said the attackers shot sporadically, injuring several persons in the community while three dead bodies were recovered by the time the killer herdsmen retreated unchallenged.

According to him, the three persons killed by the attackers were all men who were shot at and their bodies butchered by the assailants.

Benue State has been under incessant brutal attacks by invading Fulani herdsmen and the renewed killings are coming barely two months after similar separate attacks took place in Gbeji and Ukohol, communities in Ukum and Government Local Government Areas of the state where at least 60 persons including two security personnel were massacred.

These renewed spate of attacks on Benue communities have generated reactions from individuals and groups who have condemned what they perceive as pogrom targeted at hapless citizens.

Reacting to the unending orgy of bloodletting, a resident of Makurdi, John Kwaghmande stated that “the killer Fulani herdsmen have a mission to displace our people and take over our lands ahead of next year’s polls.

“It is unfortunate that other politicians in our state are collaborating with these monstrous terrorists to unleash mayhem on our people. We will reject such persons at the polls,” he stated.

Official statistics from the Benue State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA indicates that the state currently has over 2 million persons taking refuge in Internally Displaced Persons, IDPS camps as result of Fulani herdsmen attacks.