Following late Saturday’s attack on internally displaced persons taking refuge at the Mgban Primary School in Nyiev, Guma Local Government of Benue State, North-Central Nigeria where 36 persons were gruesomely murdered, Governor Samuel Ortom wants the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to do more than condole the State but bring an end to the ceaseless killings.
Ortom who made the call while visiting survivors at the community and the dozens receiving treatment at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital Makurdi insists that the President’s directive for perpetrators to be smoked out should be beyond mere words.
Again, another community in Benue State is thrown into deep mourning. This time internally displaced persons are the target.
Blood stained walls tell the story of what transpired in the hands of the terror group. Bodies of the two children of the District Head are brought in to be buried.
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It is an attack too many for Governor Ortom who has a message for those who feel the Anti-open Grazing Law enacted by Benue State is the reason.
From the scene of the attack, the Governor proceeded to the Teaching Hospital were survivors are being treated.
Displaced again is the sad placement of several of these survivors who were sacked from their ancestral homes to take refuge at the primary school. Now the question for them is “where do they go from here?”
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
