From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
A pressure group has debunked claims by the Benue State Commissioner of Police, Wale Abbas, that Fulani herdsmen attacked and killed people at Gbeji Community in Ukum Local Government Area because their members and cows were killed and cows rustled in the area.
The group, Ukum Development Association (UDA), said in a statement said the claims by the state commissioner were an attempt to cover up the unprovoked killing of the indigenous people, by the marauding Fulani herdsmen.
UDA President Mr Joseph Akenawe Terzungwe insisted that the rampaging killer Fulani herdsmen that attacked the community are not from the area.
“There was no time that any member of the Gbeji community or any citizen of the area had a conflict, clash or killed a Fulani person or rustled their cow,” he stated.
“There are no Fulani herdsmen in this area neither are their cows. Fulanis do not live with us in this or neighbouring community so there is no possibility of Farmers clashing or having conflicts with herdsmen. No member of the Ukum Local Government Area has issues with Fulani.”
The police commissioner was quoted in a media report to have said that, the killing of over 36 people in Gbeji was a reprisal attack.
He stated that the crisis started when five Fulani herdsmen were attacked and killed in three separate incidents and their cows rustled.
He, however, gave a lower death toll of 10 people, including a policeman, during the reprisal attack, stating that the officer...
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