The attacks by suspected herdsmen continued in Benue State on Tuesday with no fewer than ten people killed.
The gunmen attacked Gbeji in Ukum local government area and Tswarev district of Logo local government.
The Commissioner of Police in the State, Fatai Owoseni, who confirmed the killings, said the attackers came Tuesday night.
While disclosing that some bodies had been recovered, he said security had been stepped up in the affected areas.
His words: “There was an incident in Gbeji and we are investigating. There was said to be an attack by suspected herdsmen in the area but we can confirm that as at this morning (Wednesday), four dead bodies were recovered there. We have stepped up security in the area and we are investigating.”
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It would be recalled that Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Sunday called on the people of the state to embrace peace, declaring that the state was not at war.
Ortom made the call while condemning the attacks on passengers by hoodlums near Yelwata, along Lafia-Makurdi Highway on Saturday.
The statement was issued by Ortom’s media aide, Terver Akase.
Also on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari gave the assurance that the spate of killings by herdsmen would be stopped.
The president who spoke with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in London blamed the increase in the attacks by herdsmen and the accompanying loss of lives and property in some states of the federation on the influx of armed men from the Sahel region.
He described them as men trained and armed by the late Muammar Gadaffi of Libya.
