Following
last week’s massacre of over 300 indigenes of Agatu Local Government Area of
Benue State by suspected Fulani Herdsmen, indigenes of the affected areas in
Benin, Edo State, yesterday called on the Federal Government to urgently deploy
a detachment of soldiers to the affected communities to end the carnage.
Dr Enoch Malachi, an indigene of the affected Local
Government and medical practitioner who addressed the press, said the Idoma
community in Edo State has dispatched a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on
the urgent need to deploy soldiers to the affected areas.
Above is a picture of a little girl that was killed by the herdsmen
The affected communities are Okokolo, Akwu,
Ocholonya, Adagbo, Ugboku and Aila where the invading herdsmen destroyed
property and farmland produce worth several millions of naira.
Dr Malachi noted that it was necessary to write
the letter to the president to put an end to the unwanted killings by the
herdsmen. “Government must take drastic action to end what I may describe as
the senseless and wanton killings by Fulani herdsmen.”
He rued the fact that the spate of attacks has
forced thousands of families to flee the communities for other Local Government
Areas for safety resulting in a serious refugee and humanitarian crisis.
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