Latest Benue News today, Friday, November 4, 2022

Good morning! Here are latest Benue News this Friday, November 4, 2022

1. Many persons including women and children have been killed after suspected herdsmen attacked two communities in Ukohol Market in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

Residents told IDOMA VOICE that the first attack happened in Tswarev community in Mbamar, all Guma, where several villagers were butchered by suspected armed herdsmen.

The second attack happened Thursday evening at Ukohol Market where traders, mostly women, were killed.

2. Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has charged newly sworn-in Permanent Secretaries in the state civil service to avoid indulging in any form of financial impropriety in the discharge of their duties.

Governor Ortom gave the charge Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 during the swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed Permanent Secretaries held in the new Banquet Hall of the People’s House, Makurdi.

3. Tiv Youth Organization, TYO, has expressed serious concern at the utterances of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who said they are angry with Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom for profiling Fulani.

Atiku had stated that until Fulani are integrated into Benue communities that “they would be obligated to reciprocate the love and acceptance”.

4. The recent attack by suspected Fulani herders that left not less than 36 persons dead in Benue State, came as a reminder of such incessant attacks that have heightened security concerns in various parts of the country.

The killings, which took place penultimate Wednesday in Gbegi community in Ukum Local Government Area of the state, unsettled everybody in the state. Speaking when he visited the community, Governor Samuel Ortom, told the grieving families that the unfortunate incident was very sad.

5. All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Benue State, Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has called on aggrieved contestants in the party’s primary to sheathe their swords and join him to rescue the state.

This is contained in a statement signed by his media aide, Mr. Tersoo Kula, and issued to journalists, yesterday, in Makurdi.

6. The Benue Youth Forum, BYF, has raised concern over the recent statement credited to the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, MAKH, a Fulani sociocultural association.

The BYF said it is saddened by the content of the communique issued at the end of the expanded National Executive Committee, NEC and State Chairmen meeting of MAKH where they lashed Governor Samuel Ortom saying “the meeting condemned the continuous profiling of Fulani pastoralists by the beleaguered Governor of Benue Samuel Ortom through his satanic anti-grazing law that he has been using to officially confiscate and auction millions of cattle belonging to Fulanis in Benue- Nasarawa, Benue, and Benue-Taraba border communities.”

6. The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured the people of Kogi and Benue states of his commitment to combat the perennial flooding confronting the two states if voted in the 2023 general elections
Tinubu who made the pledge while speaking to a large crowd of APC supporters at Muhammadu Buhari Civil Centre in Lokoja, Kogi State capital yesterday.