Exactly four days after suspected Fulani herdsmen killed scores of people in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State, the herders on Thursday extended the attack to the village of former governor of the state, Gabriel Suswam leaving one person dead and many others displaced.
New Telegraph learnt that the Fulani cattle rearers invaded the densely populated Ukemberagya community in Logo Local Government Area on Wednesday and drove their cattle to a cassava farm belonging to Mr. Uhembe Iyordye.
It was while the cattle were grazing on Iyordye’s farm that he approached the herders to complain why they allowed their cattle destroy his farm.
New Telegraph was told that instead of amicably resolving the destruction caused by the cattle, the invading herdsmen swooped on the farmer and butchered him and dumped him in the bush, where his corpse was discovered the next day.
A victim of the attack and former Senior Special Assistant on Media to Suswam, Chief Joseph Anawah, told our correspondent that the decomposed body was later recovered by the Gaambe-Tiev Civilian Joint Task Force and taken to the police station at Anyiin the village of the former governor.
Chief Anawa said, as a result of the fresh attack, scores of people, including women and children, are fleeing the area in droves taking refuge in neighbouring settlements and villages considered to be safe.
