Sentences with phrase «persons by armed herdsmen»
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.
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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,...
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Noting that the attacks by armed herdsmen predated the current administration, the governor said the recent attacks had displaced 170,000 people with children of school age constituting 60 per cent.
Olumo said, «No tribe, including the Yoruba, will fold its arms while the lives and property of the people are being wasted by Fulani herdsmen.
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.
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.
Documents obtained by SATURDAY PUNCH from Irigwe Development Association indicated that between January 25 and March 12, 2018, the chiefdom lost over 70 persons to the armed Fulani herdsmen terrorising Bassa and part of Jos North LGAs.
Disclosing that they lost over 68 people to attacks by herdsmen in Taraba State, Ubeh said it would be in the interest of anybody if the people take up arms to protect themselves because government is failing in its responsibility.