Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of today, Wednesday 20th February 2019 killed sixteen persons in Ebete in Usha ward in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.According to report,the attack on Agatu people started at exactly 1am when people were deeply asleep.
According
to an eyewitness, Daddy Seni whose father was also killed alongside his
siblings, he left his father at Ebete while heading to Aloko for
fishing when he received a call from his father asking him to turn back
that he has been shot by Fulani herdsmen. On reaching where his father
was lying down in a pool of blood about giving up, he sighted his father
and was going to take him to the hospital when he heard a voice from
his father saying, “my son, don’t bother about me and your siblings
again, ours have finished, we can’t survive this gunshots, run for your
dear life to tell others about this”, then he gave up.
The
deceased son who narrated the incidence to Agatu Council Chairman Hon
Alhaji Oyigocho who rushed to Ebete with some Council members alongside
security men, said he heard the killers speaking Fulani language while
trying to run from the scene as he (Seni the deceased son) hid himself
in the bush.He said, among the sixteen persons that were murdered by
herdsmen, three were Jukum hunters who were hunting animal before they
met their untimely death while two of the Jukum hunters who couldn’t die
immediately but sustained bullet wounds were rushed to nearby hospital.
Hon
Alhaji Oyigocho urged Agatu sons and daughters to remain calm to allow
the law enforcement agencies to carry out their duties effectively.
He
was accompanied to the scene by the council Secretary Hon Abdul
Abdullahi, His Special Adviser on Security and political matters, Hon
Edwin Eheda among other Council members alongside the security men in
the area.
Below are the pictures of those killed by herdsmen this morning at Ebete in Agatu, Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.
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