Overseas Herders Behind Assaults In Benue, Plateau, Others — DHQ

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said that violent assaults on native communities and killings of farmers in Plateau, Benue and others are perpetrated by international herders.

Director Defence Media Operations, Main Normal Markus Kangye said this on Thursday whereas fielding questions from journalists on the identities of armed herders attacking farming communities in Nigeria.

Communities within the Plateau and Benue valley have come beneath collection of assaults by armed herders, killing a whole bunch of farmers and rendering 1000’s homeless.

LEADERSHIP remembers that Benue State governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia lately blamed international herders profiting from ECOWAS protocol on free motion of individuals and animals to invade communities.

Normal Kangye mentioned, “After we arrest these herders and terrorists, even the best way they converse and seem is evident to see and even the hair will inform you that this individual is just not from Nigeria.”

He added that “One may even admit that lots of these terrorising our individuals are foreigners though a few of them are additionally Nigerians.”

Nonetheless, Kangye defined additional that there are some herders who’re Nigerians that additionally get entangled within the technique of rearing their cows then they encroach into farms leading to battle with farmers.

“However know that many of the violence and relentless killings you’re listening to in some components of this nation are perpetrated by principally those who discover their manner into porous borders of our nation,” he mentioned.

Including, “However we should as a nation stand up along with different companies whose accountability it’s to make sure those who come into Nigeria are accounted for.”