Benue Indigenes Accuses FG of Protecting Killer-Herdsmen

THE leadership of ethnic groups in Benue State under the aegis of Mdzough U Tiv, Idoma National Forum and Omi Ny’Igede.Have all accused the Federal Government of taking sides with the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore and militant herdsmen allegedly responsible for the ceaseless killings in the state.
The ethnic leaders through their Chairman, Chief Edward Ujege were reacting to a statement contained in the communiqué issued in Kaduna at the end of an emergency meeting of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore in which the group allegedly “vowed to do everything possible to resist any law that is against their culture, movement and economic interest.” They maintained that the statement credited to Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore clearly constituted the height of lawlessness, impunity and terrorism which called for the arrest and prosecution of the leadership of the herdsmen group which the federal government had failed to do.