By Peter Duru, Makurdi
Offended protesters Saturday morning blocked the busy Makurdi-Lafia-Abuja freeway with the corpses of three individuals reportedly murdered Saturday morning of their farms by suspected armed herdsmen at Abagena and Atsom villages within the outskirts of Makurdi Native Authorities Space, LGA, of Benue state.
The assault got here lower than 24 hours after two others had been killed by the marauders in a separate assault at Tse Adaa village in neighbouring Guma LGA.
The protesters who trooped out of their numbers from their villages as early as 9am took over the busy highway between Makurdi and Daudu, disrupting all vehicular actions from Makurdi and Abuja.
In response to one of many protesters who merely recognized himself as Ushahemba, the armed herders attacked the victims of their farms, killed three and took a number of others hostage.
He mentioned: “Our folks went to the farm this morning and at about 8:30am there have been cries for assist from the farms after they obtained attacked. There was pandemonium, folks began operating with their households.
“The assaults occurred nearly one kilimeter from the categorical highway. They killed a few of these they reached within the farm and took away among the victims.
“Three our bodies have to date been recovered whereas seek for extra corpses is ongoing as a result of a number of individuals are nonetheless lacking.
“Our folks can not even go very far into the bush the place extra corpses might be found as a result of nobody is aware of the place the attackers are in the meanwhile.
“Simply yesterday two others had been killed at Tse Adaa village not removed from right here in neighbouring Guma LGA. The query is when will all these killings cease?
“And the one method the folks can expressed their anger is to convey the corpses to the highway to let the authorities perceive what we’re going by way of and the necessity to finish these assaults in an effort to permit out folks domesticate their farmland.
“The folks had been additionally asking for the Governor to come back and handle them earlier than the go away the freeway.”
It was nevertheless gathered that safety personnel who had been drafted to the neighborhood to make sure that the state of affairs didn’t escalate prevailed on the protesters to open up the highway.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent, DSP, Udeme Edet couldn’t be reached for feedback.
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