Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has linked the deadly attack on the Abagena community in the state’s Makurdi Local Government Area to “reckless comments of some highly-placed individuals.”
It was previously reported that gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen stormed the community on Thursday night, killing a family of six and injuring several others.
In response, Ortom described the renewed attacks on the state as a declaration of war on the people of the state in a statement issued and made available to our correspondent by his Special Adviser, Media & Publicity, Terver Akase.
Governor Ortom stated that the latest attack in Abagena, a community with one of the highest numbers of internally displaced people in Makurdi, reaffirms his previous statements that the suspected terrorists are hell-bent on reclaiming the people’s ancestral lands.
