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Ortom said that the fear of the people stemmed from continuous threat by the herdsmen who despite the killings still issued threat on daily basis to take over Benue land.

Also condemning the attacks, a former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, who is now a lawmaker representing Plateau North in the National Assembly, said he was sad to hear about the «incessant violent killings going on in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, allegedly perpetrated by herdsmen who have become the usual suspects in this kind of coordinated attacks in the state and others in the Middle - Belt.»

Not exact matches

Meeting follows widespread Sunday protests by Christians who oppose their government's lack of action against Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram.

The attack is thought to have been by Fulani herdsmen, a group who have had several clashes with the Christian community in Nigeria over the years.

John Charles The representative of the Pope in Nigeria will lead about 50 Catholic bishops to the mass burial of two priests and parishioners, who were killed by herdsmen at Mbalon community in the Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State on Tuesday.

Ogbonnaya who rose from the All Progressives Congress (APC) South - East stakeholders meeting said the call is uncalled for, as President Muhammadu Buhari has directed relevant agencies to take appropriate actions in halting the killings by suspected herdsmen.

Yet until killings, either by herdsmen or any other group, are treated as strictly crimes, they would continue, no matter who occupies the Presidency.

Buhari, who gave the assurance during his meeting with Trump at the White House, said Nigerians were concerned about the resort to arms by some herdsmen.

Kukah, who stated this when Nigerian Catholic Bishops visited the communities attacked by suspected Fulani herdsmen, leading to massive destruction of lives and properties.

The CISLAC Director, Auwal Rafsanjani, who stated this at a state - of - the - nation press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, urged the government to provide livelihood support to several households in the states affected by the herdsmen's conflict.

The Commissioner for Special Duties in Osun State, Mr. Oguntola Toogun, who is the head of a committee set up by the Osun State Government to resolve crisis between farmers and herdsmen, said he was not aware of the destruction when contacted by one of our correspondents.

Speaking at theNigeria Union of Journalists» national summit in Abeokuta the Ogun State capital, Obasanjo who was represented by Prof Peter Okebukola, said the problems of herdsmen and the Niger Delta Avengers and others have constituted serious threats to the cooperate existence of Nigeria.

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El - Rufai has reiterated that Chocolate City co-founder, Audu Maikori, who was recently arrested by the police over a series of tweets he sent to his followers, alleging that some students of the Kaduna State College of Education had been killed by Fulani herdsmen in Southern Kaduna, will face prosecution for his crime.

They will never subject themselves to the whim and caprices of a President who looked the other way when thousands of people were being killed by herdsmen in Benue, Taraba, Plateau and other States.

Falae's farm was attacked on Sunday by some suspected Fulani herdsmen who allegedly burnt down over five hectares of palm plantation and some cash crops.

The Tuesday attack came barely four days after the murder of 10 persons by herdsmen in the Guma LGA, and the destruction of houses in the Naka, Gwer LGA by men suspected to be military personnel who claimed to be searching for killers of a soldier.

Speaking on the Fulani herdsmen crisis in some parts of the country, he noted, «l also see the planned grazing Colonies being contemplated by the Federal Government of Nigeria as a subtle ploy to legitimate and settle foreign Fulani herdsmen who will be used by Islamist to prosecute jihad in Nigeria.

«Two days ago, the media was awash with the story of Tiv militia gang arrested in Taraba State by the Army who confessed that over 1000 of them were recruited and dangerously armed by the Benue State Government to kill the Fulani herdsmen.

Ajisebutu who said that the Police had began investigation to unravel the circumstances that surrounded the killing, also disclosed that the officer was killed by armed robbers and not Fulani herdsmen.

«Having said that, let it be known that we find the statement by the Presidency stating that 756 Nigerians were killed by Fulani herdsmen in two years under the government of former President Jonathan as a mischievous assertion by a callous Presidential spokesman who thinks that death is something to be trivialized.

In Agogo, four security personnel including three military officers and a police officer, who had been deployed to the area to evict the herdsmen, were shot and injured by an unknown assailant following the renewed government efforts to address the long - standing conflict.

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.

According to Afenifere, «It is continuation of the declaration of war by armed Fulani herdsmen, who have been terrorising communities and are now burning farmlands.

A source who preferred anonymity told our correspondent that the SARS men had arrested some suspected Fulani herdsmen for disturbing public peace but they were ambushed by another group of herdsmen.

Everyone welcomed the law in the face of unrelenting attacks by herdsmen, who seem to be getting more emboldened in their unchecked act of casual killings of farmers and destruction of farmlands aparently as there was no retribution.

These same people of Benue state have continued to go through series of armed attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen who had protested against the passage of the anti-open grazing law by the Benue state house of Assembly.

While commiserating with the Enugu State Government and families of those who lost their lives in the carnage, the unions warned that they will «no longer tolerate further attacks on our people by these terrorists who disguise themselves as herdsmen».

To start with, there is no any attack by herdsmen or any other group in all the stretch of Express Ways across and within Ogun State, we make bold to say that the alleged attack been posted on social media is a lie from pit of hell fire been peddled by those who are not happy with the peaceful atmosphere in Ogun State.

Although the peace in Plateau State was said to have been broken in 2001 by religious fanatics, the worrisome dimension rose to its crescendo with the activities of suspected Fulani herdsmen who, when they come, would kill, steal and destroy.

Commiserating with hundreds of people, who had lost their lives in the unrelenting attacks, the former governor condemned what he termed «wanton destruction of lives and property» by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

He wrote: «All Christians who campaign for a 2nd term for Buhari who's done nothing concrete to stop slaughter of Christian communities by his radical Muslim Fulani herdsmen brethren may get a useless post from him but will one day answer before a righteous God for their betrayal of Christ!»

It was learnt that the farmers fled their homes in Boutsa, Demekaa and Ayoosu among others in the Keana Local Government Area of the state for fear of being attacked by the rampaging herdsmen who are currently taking refuge at Keana South Primary School.

He explained that his uncle, Julius Ntwangwa, who worked with the Benue State Agriculture and Rural Development Agency, was among those killed by the herdsmen, who dropped his corpse at the back of the house.

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.

Uwazuruike recalling how the jihadists had arrived Kwara State in 1811 and after some brief stay «killed the Yoruba leader in the state and took over the administration of the area till date», said it was an indication «that all these attacks by Boko Haram and herdsmen who kill, maim and sometimes colonise some communities in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states have the same Islamisation agenda».

He said that merits of the Bill included prevention of destruction of farms and crops by herdsmen and their cattle, and legal backing to herdsmen who would register their business to operate according to the law.

Four days ago on Monday April 25, 2016 many of our brothers and sisters in Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of the state were murdered in cold blood by suspected Fulani herdsmen who have been grazing their cattle in that area for a while now.

The governor was reacting to the criticism that greeted his comment in which he was quoted as carpeting the Catholic bishops who paid a visit to Buhari last week and expressed their misgivings about the President's perceived nepotism and killings by Fulani herdsmen in parts of the country.

Reacting to the latest killings by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State, Fayose wondered why a retired Army General and one - time military Head of State who contested and won election on the premises of providing security to the citizens had suddenly become a lame duck.

While the Nigerian state seems to be deploying its security machinery to tackle threats to peace by militants in the Niger Delta and Boko Haram in the North - East, not much has been done to counter the threats posed by Fulani herdsmen who consider the whole country their private turf.

NAS President, Arthur Boje, who made the call during a medical outreach organised by the association at Oro - Ochiri community in Rebisi town, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said herdsmen were also responsible for the sacking of some communities in the country.