Sentences with phrase «massacre by herdsmen»

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The Senate confirmed that within the last 12 months, Nigeria has «witnessed a harvest of killings by the Marauding Herdsmen with several cases of massacre in Agatu in Benue State, Uzo Uwani in Enugu State, with several attacks in Taraba, Delta and Edo States, to mention but a few.»

Under them hundreds of thousands of innocent Nigerians have been raped, maimed, robbed and massacred by well - armed, well - funded and well - organised Fulani militias and herdsmen all over the country yet not one of the perpetrators has been arrested or brought to justice simply because they are members of the President's ethnic group and they are his loyal foot - soldiers.

The massacre of MASSOB / IPOB members in Aba, the Ezu - River, killing of six Igbo traders in Abuja (the Apo six) the invasion of Igbo land by the Fulani herdsmen, all these, Amnesty International has not and will never see reasons to indict Nigerian Government because they are being controlled by the North.

That thus illustrates the graveness of grief which struck Governor Samuel Ortom and the entire people of Benue on the day of the mass burial of the 73 men, women and children massacred by the suspected killer Fulani herdsmen.

Rising from their expanded meeting on the state of the Nation on Wednesday, leader of the group, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, disclosed that they discussed extensively, the ongoing massacre of innocent Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen, particularly, the Agatu and Enugu killings where dozens of people were killed.