{"id":260263,"date":"2023-04-05T03:47:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=260263"},"modified":"2023-04-05T03:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:47:39","slug":"suspected-herdsmen-kill-community-leader-two-others-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/04\/05\/suspected-herdsmen-kill-community-leader-two-others-in-benue\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected herdsmen kill community leader, two others in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected herdsmen have killed a community leader and two others at Igbobi in the Apa Local Government Area of Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the herdsmen stormed the village on Monday and shot indiscriminately at the villagers and abducted a community leader who was later killed.<\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of Ikobi Community Development, Akpoko Eche, confirmed the attack on the telephone to journalists.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThere was an attack at the Igbobi community which is adjacent to Ikobi, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/01\/03\/gunmen-kill-anambra-community-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community leader<\/a> was adopted and killed along with two other persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attackers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/03\/29\/suspected-herdsmen-kill-driver-injure-others-in-edo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspected herdsmen<\/a>. If you like, call them bandits or unknown gunmen whatever they are, but they are killers. They started this way back on January 17, so it is a renewed attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a routine, almost every year at this dry season; they come back and attack people, maim and rape women and destroy their farm crops and houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it has been a routine all this while. But this year\u2019s own is colossal because they have wiped out almost 20 villages, if not more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paramount ruler of the Idoma nation, John Elaigwu, in a statement by his media aide, Onuminya Odoba, condemned the incessant killings by herdsmen and in particular the attack on Igbobi.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read in part, \u201cThere have been a series of coordinated hostilities and violent attacks within the farming communities of Benue South, especially but not limited to Apa\/Agatu corridor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe assailants are suspected herdsmen and cattle rearers who visit farms with hundreds of cows, destroy crops, and livelihoods, maim, rape, and kill innocent citizens, forcing many to leave their ancestral homestead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese recent attacks which have claimed not less than 75 lives and displaced thousands from their homes and businesses, unfortunately, brutally claimed the life of the Chief of Igbobi in Apa Local Government Area yesterday, April 3, 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has dissociated its members from the attacks in Apa Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>The state Secretary of MACBAN, Ibrahim Galma, who spoke to journalists on the telephone on Tuesday said, \u201cWe don\u2019t have people herdsmen in Apa. We don\u2019t know them we don\u2019t have their leaders and we don\u2019t know where they come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state Police Public Relations Officer, Catherine Anene, could not be reached for comment as her phone rang out, PUNCH reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected herdsmen have killed a community leader and two others at Igbobi in the Apa Local Government Area of Benue State. It was gathered that the herdsmen stormed the village on Monday and shot indiscriminately at the villagers and abducted a community leader who was later killed. 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