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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
Legal practitioners, under the auspices of Association of Idoma Lawyers (Owa Ka’Okepo Ki’Idoma), have called on the Federal and Benue State governments to immediately put an end to what they called, “the brutal and senseless” killings of their people.
The lawyers made the call in Abuja yesterday in a statement jointly signed by their Leader, Chief Godwin Obia, SAN, and President, Dr. Joshua Musa, SAN.
According to them, the brutal and senseless attacks must stop now as “our people have been pushed to the wall, and if help does not come from any quarter, they will be compelled to resort to self defence with sticks and stones,” they said.
The group condemned in strongest terms, the barbaric attack on the peaceful people of Akpa-Otobi community in Otukpo Local Government Area the state by persons suspected to be Fulani herders, leading to the untimely death of about four persons.
Four persons were alleged to have been killed by suspected armed herdsmen in Akpa-Otobi community. Among them was Mr. Igbabe Ochi, a former House of Assembly candidate for the Otukpo-Akpa State Constituency in the 2019 general elections.
The lawyers said the incessant violent attacks by armed herdsmen on innocent persons in various communities in Otukpo, Ohimini, Apa and Agatu local government areas of Benue State should be of utmost concern to the state and federal authorities.
According to them, security agencies must rise to the occasion in the same renewed momentum they have taken the fight to these heartless terrorists in other parts of the country.
