Sentences with phrase «killings by armed herdsmen»
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.
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Worried by the spate of attacks and killing of innocent persons by armed herdsmen, the leadership of the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, Kaduna South District,...
«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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Catholic Knights of the Order of St. Mulumba have decried the inability of the federal government to stop the gory killings and wanton destruction of property and livelihoods by armed herdsmen, urging it to bring to book all those behind the acts of brigandage and savagery.
The Muslim Congress (TMC), has condemned what it called «senseless» killings in some parts of the country, especially by Boko Haram, herdsmen, kidnappers, cultists and armed...