Nasarawa Bombing: Herders Take Vengeance to Tiv Farmers - Ortom: Benue has no hand in bombing Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia and George Okoh in Makurdi Suspected Fulani herdsmen have reportedly taken vengeance
Suspected Fulani herdsmen have reportedly taken vengeance to Tiv farmers of Nasarawa State following a recent bombardment of persons said to be herders on the boundary of Benue/Nasarawa States.This is just as the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said it was mischievous to link his government to killings.
He alleged further that the Tiv people had been targeted and singled out for attacks by heavily armed herdsmen, stressing that scores of innocent Tiv farmers have so far been murdered and displaced from their communities across Doma, Keana and Obi Local Government Areas of the state. He described the attacks on the Tiv farmers as barbaric, noting that the Tiv people of the state knew nothing about the recent airstrike which was being used as reason for the massive killings of the Tiv farmers and destruction of their property.
He explained that contrary to the wrong narrative being peddled, it may have been as a result of intelligence gathered by the military high command. Ortom told people that boundaries were meant for administrative convenience and not to divide people.
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