BENUE State coordinator of Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Garus Gololo, has advanced reason for the Friday night attack on the Tiv people of Agwabi village in Binev Council Ward of Buruku local government area of the state, which led to the death of many persons.
Tribune Online had reported the sacking of Agwabi community and killing of many people as a result of renewed crisis between herdsmen and farmers in Buruku local government area of Benue State on Friday night.
However, state police command confirmed five people killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Friday night who invaded the affected community.
Gololo said that information gathered from his kinsmen in the troubled Buruku area alleged that trouble started when youths from the affected village on Thursday carried away 800 cows belonging to the resident herders.
According to him, “the (herders) traced the missing cows the following day to that village and that was how trouble started.
"This is highly regrettable because they should have notified the security apparatus already put in place by the state government who could have handled the matter. They didn't report the matter even to us (MACBAN)."
"It is painful that while the state government is doing everything to resolve the crisis, some others are taking the law into their hands. But, those found wanting in this matter would surely be handed over to the security agencies," he said.
Gololo urged both farmers and the herders to appreciate government's effort in bringing about peace by reporting offences to the right quarters instead of embarking on violence, stressing that while the trouble was going on in Buruku, he got another report of a Fulani man whose corpse was found mutilated in a village at Guma LGA where Governor Samuel Ortom hails from.
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