Victims Of Adamawa Herdsmen Attacks Cry For Help

Families and victims of herdsmen attacks who have been widowed and displaced since 2013, have called for a home grown vigilantee force, recognised by the state government.
This, they believe would help to defend their ancestral homes from herdsmen invasion.
The call was made at the 2016 Kyegh-Sha Shwa cultural festival of the Tiv ethnic group to unite the tribe with their displaced families and seek a way forward to cope with the annual bloodbath vested on them by herdsmen.
One of the victims, a Reverend Father, Solomon Mfa, lamented the inability of the federal government to check the excesses of the herdsmen which he believes, have sinister occupation agenda asides grazing cattles in the Benue valley.
A total of 12 out of the 23 local government councils in Benue state, were reported to have witnessed intense herdsmen attacks in 2016, with many lives lost, properties and farm produce worth millions of Naira destroyed.
In 2014, the United Nations High Commission For Refugee, began the Guma Shelta home project, for displaced victims of herdsmen attacks.
By November 2016, the UNHCR handed over 100 homes to widows and indigent IDP families.

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