Latest Benue News today, Sunday September 4, 2022

Here are latest Benue News today, Sunday September 4, 2022

1. Armed militias on Friday evening invade Tse-Akpene Torov, Mbawar, Azendeshi council ward, Ukum LGA shooting at residents sporadically.

A source who claimed to have lost his brother in the attack wrote: “Unknown gunmen shot and killed my brother Saa-Aondo Gbamwuan Akpene (Shortman) this evening in my village, Tse-Akpene Torov, Mbawar, Azendeshi council ward, Ukum LGA.

2. The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Comrade Abba Moro, was on Saturday honoured with the DISTINGUISH ICON OF HOPE AWARD by SS Peter and Paul, Idoma Catholic Community (SSPPICC).
The occasion was the SSPPICC’s Honours Awards/Launching of National Secretariat, held at St. Francis Cathedral, Otukpo.

3. No fewer than six persons have been reportedly killed in a fresh attack on Umella village in Mbawa Council Ward of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
It was gathered that the attack happened around 3pm on Thursday.

4. Benue-born human rights activist, Ukan P Kurugh has said that Bernard Ogbu who was allegedly arrested and detained by men of the Nigeria Police Force for over 3 years is dead.
Kurugh in a post via his official Facebook page said he has confirmed that the 43-year-old Benue man held for three years without bail and trial was killed by men of the defunct SARS unit.

5. The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Comrade Abba Moro calls on the Nigeria Police Force to produce his constituent, Bernard Ogbu, reportedly in their custody for more than three years.
The Senator laments that Bernard Ogbu’s wife developed depression and other health complications as a result of the prolonged detention of her husband and died last year, leaving behind four young children.

6. The leaders of the three main socio-cultural organizations in Benue State, under the auspices of the Mdzough U Tiv, MUT, Ochetoha K’Idoma, OKI and Omi Ny’Igede, ONI, have vowed to resist the Miyetti Allah’s plot to create its vigilante group in the state.

The leaders maintained that a group whose members had allegedly unleashed mayhem in Benue state leading to the gruesome murder of thousands of the people as well as the displacement of close to two million farmers would never be allowed the leverage to establish a purported vigilante to be used as weapon for further annihilation of the people of the state.

7. Six people have been reportedly killed in a fresh attack by suspected herdsmen on Umella village in Mbawa Council Ward of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

According to sources from the village who spoke by telephone to newsmen, the attackers invaded the village around 3 pm on Thursday and opened fire on the people, killing six and injuring others.
8. The Army has dismissed allegations that it is colluding with killer herdsmen and bandits to terrorise the Southeast and Benue State.

It described the claim by a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), the International Society for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law (Intersociety), as spurious, libellous and derogatory.

9. Nyesom Wike, Rivers State governor, and his allies, Samuel Ortom of Benue State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, on Friday, jetted out to London, United Kingdom for a new round of talks.
They are expected to be joined by Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who is currently on vacation abroad.

10. The Benue Youths Forum, BYF, has asked the Presidency to explain to Nigerians why those who claimed responsibility for the killings in Benue state since 2018 have not been arrested and prosecuted; rather than attacking Governor Samuel Ortom for making damning revelations about insecurity in the country.

The BYF in a statement issued weekend in Makurdi by its National President, Terrence Kuanum, in response to the recent statement by the presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu who slammed Governor Ortom for speaking out against worsening insecurity in the country, insisted that the response was kindergarten in nature.