By Austin Angwe, Makurdi
At least not fewer than two persons have been reportedly feared killed with three persons kidnapped as well as many suffering from various degrees of injuries following an attack by gunmen suspected to be Lukurawa bandits.
A fleeing victim who spoke with journalists yesterday in Makurdi on condition of anonymity said heavily armed bandits invaded Sarkin Noma community of Kadarko in the early hours of Friday killing their victims.
He said following the development, angry farmers who were chanting Christian songs blocked the Lafia- Makurdi highway and were demanding that the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, visits the scene to address them.
The eyewitness told journalists that the victims called on Governor Sule, to as a matter of urgency, address what they described as humanitarian crisis which has sent many innocent parents to their early graves leaving behind orphans and widows, urging the government to stop the killings.
Reacting to the killings, President, United Farmers Association Benue Valley, Chief Dennis Gbongbon, in a statement condemned the continuous killing of farmers particularly on the Benue/Nasarawa borders, describing the killings as barbaric and inhuman.
He noted that despite the organisation’s official complaint to President Bola Tinubu’s office, recently, authorities are yet to act, urging the federal government to take urgent measures to stop the killings.
Gbongbon appealed to Governor Sule as the chief security officer of the state to end the killings in the interest of justice, to allow farmers who most are in the IDP camps go back to their ancestral homes to continue farming business.