Sentences with phrase «armed herdsmen on»

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Apart from their activities of grazing their cattle on farm land and forest reserves, the herdsmen are also alleged to be into all sorts of crimes including armed robbery, rape, Stealing, burning of farms and worst of it all, killing of farmers».

This is coming on the heels of continued attacks on communities across the country by armed herdsmen.

As the Army plans to lock down some forests of Kano, Plateau and Bauchi states in the operation, more attention should be invested on southern Kaduna given the peculiarity and the nature of the constant tragic attacks by armed herdsmen.

Fearless Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese, Reverend Father Joseph Danlami Bagobiri was on point when, recently, he accused el - Rufai of taking sides with the armed herdsmen, thus failing in his responsibility as a true statesman; and becoming, therefore, a biased umpire who, according to the priest, «blames and criminalises southern Kaduna victims as the cause of the mayhem.»

Armed Fulani herdsmen unleashed terror on Ayar Mbalom community in the Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State on Tuesday, killing 19 persons, including two Rev. Fathers.

CAN President, Rev Samson Olasupo Ayokunle in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Pastor Bayo Oladeji, noted that in recent times, armed Fulani herdsmen all over the federation have continuously killed innocent farmers with impunity.

«While in office, the former President knew that the capacity of the Nigerian police would be challenged by the sophistication of arms available to the herdsmen and so after he was elected President and sworn in on May 29, 2011, former President Jonathan summoned a National Security Council meeting and ordered that Fulani herdsmen attack must be decisively dealt with.

In another development, troops of 72 Battalion Special Forces on 7 April 2018 while on clearance operation in Gbajimba, Baka, Tomanyi, Iyode and Dogon Yashi in Benue State made contact with armed herdsmen militias at about 1330hours (1:30 pm).

Minister of Defence, Mansur Muhammad Dan - Ali on Sunday declared that the call by elder statesman and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General TY Danjuma, to the people of Taraba state to take up arms and defend themselves in the face of Fulani herdsmen killings, is an invitation to anarchy.

Buhari had on Wednesday in London told Archbishop Justin Welby that the farmers / herdsmen clashes were made worse by the influx of armed gunmen from the Sahel region in Nigeria and other parts of West African sub-region.

Who are those arming the Fulani herdsmen to unleash mayhem on innocent and defenceless Nigerians?

He made the call when he spoke with Kwame Tutu on Rainbow Radio following a report in the section of the media that, he had ordered Fulani herdsmen to return all arms and ammunition to the Regional Security Council (REGSEC).

The statement read in part, «Governor Ortom commiserates with families of the victims, describing the attack on the young protesters as insensitive to the current mood of the people who are in grief over the killing of many innocent persons by armed herdsmen in Guma and Logo local government areas of the state.

On recovery of arms, he said: «Following a tip off from an informant at Gajiram in Nganzai Local Government Area, some Fulani herdsmen were held hostage and placed on a ransom by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Galte busOn recovery of arms, he said: «Following a tip off from an informant at Gajiram in Nganzai Local Government Area, some Fulani herdsmen were held hostage and placed on a ransom by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Galte buson a ransom by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Galte bush.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration's resolve to deal decisively and expeditiously with the continued attacks on communities across the country by armed herdsmen, stressing that he has ordered heads of national security agencies to take all necessary measures to apprehend and expose those behind the heinous attacks.

The above of example is just one out of many successive attacks in Benue and Kogi states where arms - carrying herdsmen casually visited terror on harmless citizens, killing and displacing community members.

Nyiam further said what Danjuma said was not new and recalled a revelation by the Director - General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Lawal Daura, during a Senate summit on security that «some of the military arms that they found with the herdsmen, the sophisticated ones, are from the military and police armouries.»

The attack came barely one week after residents of the area cried out over invasion on their community by suspected heavily armed herdsmen.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has challenged the presidency on why no armed herdsman has been arrested and prosecuted by the Federal Government.

The National Union of Benue State Students on Thursday, thronged the major streets of Makurdi, the state capital to express their outrage over the killing of one of their colleagues by armed herdsmen last weekend.

A source, who spoke to one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity, said, «There were coordinated attacks on five communities by the well - armed herdsmen who stormed our villages in large number, around 10 pm to 4 am.

Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba on Monday denied that he was arming militia group to attack Fulani herdsmen as the state prepares for the take - off of the open grazing prohibition law.

Idris had been summoned to address the Senate on the alleged inhuman treatment of Senator Dino Melaye during his arrest and detention by the police over alleged gun - running; and the spate of killings by armed herdsmen and militias across the country.

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has raised the alarm over endless attacks of suspected armed Fulani herdsmen on the people of the State.

Armed robbers suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday attacked travellers on the ever - busy Abuja - Keffi Expressway, carting away mobile phones and money from them.