The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government on Friday came other serious bashing over the recent attacks on Benue communities leaving scores of people dead.
According to reports, the violent attacks were masterminded by suspected herdsmen.
Trending the hashtag #BenueUnderAttack on Friday, Nigerian Twitter users called the attention of authorities to gory images as evidence of mass killings.
Over 200 people have been reportedly killed in the last month in Benue.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG gathered that earlier in the week, suspected herders attacked Katsina Ala Local Government Area of the state, killing over a hundred residents and rendering many others homeless.
TNG reports that the governor of the state, Samuel Ortom, has repeatedly called out President Buhari over his unperturbed stance on the killings allegedly perpetrated by herdsmen going on in the state.
The state government, against the advice of the federal government, said it would not revert its ban on open grazing.
Governor Ortom has also urged the people to defend themselves against killer herders.
“I’ll no longer announce the deaths of those killed by Fulani herdsmen; rise up and defend yourselves with weapons not prohibited by law, bows and arrows, spears, knives, and similar ones,” Ortom said on Sunday.
However, Nigerians who felt moved by the sight of the mass killings allegedly perpetrated on Thursday night could not take it anymore as they called for immediate action plans on the part of the federal government and security operatives to end the mass attacks and killings going in the state.
See some reactions below:
#BenueUnderAttack, Nigerian soldiers and police are your major problem. If you are still waiting for them to protect you, all of you will die. Nigeria security forces facilitate the movement of these Fulani terrorists. Until Benue people do the needful, you will continue to die.
— Emeka Gift (@Emekannaoma) May 28, 2021
The federal government’s inactions enabled some of these conspiracy theories being woven to make sense of #BenueUnderAttack. It’s disheartening, waking up to such mass killings and knowing that those tasked with protecting these people aren’t going to lose their jobs over it.
— Gimba Kakanda (@gimbakakanda) May 28, 2021
Yesterday, a friend reached out to me on whatsapp that 3 of her uncles were among the victims of the #BenueUnderAttack. I kept asking her to be strong but how do you ask someone to be strong after losing 3 relations in a country that pretends to have a President?
— Henry Shield (@henryshield) May 28, 2021
In my years of living in Nig., I only know that a particular tribe migrate to other regions for education, work, marriage, etc. I am yet to hear that a tribe migrate to another region to kill d inhabitants for no reason. Dear @MBuhari talk to your Fulani tribe #BenueUnderAttack
— FS Yusuf (@FS_Yusuf_) May 28, 2021
We can't fold our hands and watch anymore. #BenueUnderAttack
People are being killed in their homes and lands and the government is watching. This is a ticking time bomb.
Protect all Nigerian citizens!
— Aproko Doctor (@aproko_doctor) May 28, 2021
The lives of Benue people must be protected. No Nigerian is more Nigerian than any Nigerian #BenueUnderAttack #BenueGenocide #BenueLivesMatterhttps://t.co/wVQ05RYTMf pic.twitter.com/eGhYSdc0b3
— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) May 28, 2021
Much as I am trying to focus on other things..
The images of bodies lain on the floor in huge numbers has dampened my spirit somewhat..
Why does life mean nothing in Nigeria?
To our rulers??
Too much blood shed….too much, God😢#BenueUnderAttack— Kate Henshaw (@HenshawKate) May 28, 2021
