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Barely four days after armed herdsmen invaded Mchia and Mou communities in Logo Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State where 14 persons were murdered and close to 30 others injured, the marauders have invaded Ukemberagya/Tswarev Council Ward. This time, they chased away the inhabitants, set houses ablaze, harvested their crops and stole their livestock. The armed herders, who reportedly besieged the communities on Friday morning were said to have stormed the communities later at night to loot the property and valuables of the fleeing inhabitants. According to a community leader in the area, Chief Joseph Anawa, who raised the alarm, the sacked villages include Tse Ikyem, Tsav, Tse Ijoho, Tse Ikyaan as well as Anawah and Mou settlements. Anawa said: “On Friday, September 23, 2022, Fulani herdsmen connived with Jukun military to drive away Tiv people of Ukemberagya/Tswarev ward in Logo LGA from their farms and harvested their yam. “On the night of the same day, they went on a destruct...

Benue State Government has said it would soon drag the Miyetti Allah, a Fulani socio-cultural group, to the International Criminal Court, ICC, at The Hague over the mindless invasion and killings in the state by armed Fulani herdsmen. Benue State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Michael Gusa who made this known on Thursday in Makurdi, he said it was incumbent on the government to take the action since from available records the masterminds of the genocide in the state were already known by their victims “and our killers also know themselves.” The Commissioner for justice who noted threats by the National Secretary-General of Miyetti Allah, Alhaji Saleh Alhassan to drag Governor Samuel Ortom before the ICC said the threat was preemptive given their fear that the state government would take the group to the court. In his words, the Attorney General said, “I think what they said was just to preempt what the Benue State Government would do to them because we recall th...