17 dead as armed herdsmen sack two Benue communities

….We’ve been violated, Council Chairman cries out

By Peter Duru, Makurdi

Now fewer than 17 persons including women and children have been reportedly killed by armed herdsmen in the home town of the Wife of the Benue state Governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom, in separate attacks on two communities in Gwer West Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state

Vanguard gathered that the communities affected by the fresh attacks were Agbanu, along Naka-Agagbe road, Saghev Council Ward, and Tse Amgbem close to Aondoana all in Gwer West LGA.

The attackers who reportedly burnt down Tse Amgbem in…