Governor Samuel Ortom’s village and other communities in Benue State’s Guma Local Government Area are currently being attacked by armed herdsmen.
The Guma LGA’s Agasha, Governor Ortom’s village, Gbajimba, and Mbawa Council Wards are the areas that are most frequently attacked.
The herdsmen of the jihadist terrorists were still ravaging the council wards, according to sources from the communities, so they were unable to determine the number of casualties.
One of the sources claims that the “leader of the Fulani militias organising the attack is simply known as Wariri and the soldiers know him and where he camps with his fighters but would not go there.
“The military is aware of the location of the attacking herdsmen’s camp. They (the soldiers) wouldn’t go to their (the Fulani’s) village, which is called Nem City in the Mbadue council Ward.
Sources lamented the ongoing attacks on the victims of the incident, who are now refugees in their communities, and claimed that residents of Mbawa were unable to visit Daudu market and that those who did so were attacked.
“Now everyone will vanish whenever our people see soldiers entering any villages. This is because the Fulani will launch an attack on that region within 30 minutes of soldiers entering any village. The source said, “We don’t know whether the soldiers now collaborate with the Fulani herdsmen.
It will be recalled that on May 8, suspected herdsmen killed a catechist, his wife, and five other people in three separate attacks on the village of Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom and other nearby communities in Guma Local Government Area.
22 people had died as a result of the Fulani herdsmen attack on the village of Iyer in the Uvir Council Ward of the Guma LGA.
Additionally, it had been reported on Monday that a group of armed Fulani herdsmen had attacked a community in Benue State, killing dozens of people, including four soldiers, and torching villages.
On May 11, it was reported that a new attack by Fulani herdsmen on the Mbawa Council Ward in the Guma Local Government area of Benue State, North Central Nigeria, resulted in at least 28 deaths.
According to sources, jihadist terrorist herdsmen have recently killed tens of people in the local government area in gruesome ways.
In the meantime, attempts to reach Mr. Julius Alawari, the commissioner of police for Benue State, were unsuccessful because he did not answer his calls at the time this report was filed.
