Herdsmen killings: Deploy military to Nasarawa, Benue border – CAN tells FG

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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Nasarawa State chapter on Sunday urged the Federal Government to drop the idea of cattle colonies and deploy Military to Nasarawa and Benue border.

The state Chairman of CAN, Joseph Masin, said this during the body’s donation of relief materials to over 8, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camped in the state.

Masin advised the government to adopt ranches system as it was the only way to curtail herdsmen/farmers crisis.

He made the donations comprising 10 bags of gari, 20 bags of rice and assorted clothes to IDPs in kaderko, in Keana Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

The IDPs, who are mostly Tivs, were allegedly chased out from their communities bordering Benue State by suspected herdsmen.

The Chairman said they were not only there to distribute relief materials, but to also share in the pains of the IDPs who lost some of their loved ones during the attack.

Masin told NAN: “It is a very pathetic situation to see children, women and the aged being forced and dislodged from their homes.

“Despite all the killings going on simultaneously in many states of the country, our military that fought and restored peace in other African countries were able to do little or nothing.

“Government should urgently deploy the military to the border towns between Nasarawa and Benue in order to restore peace and return the people to their homes,’’ he said

Mr Christopher Gbongbo, the spokesperson of the IDPs, who received the items on behalf of the IDPs, expressed gratitude to CAN for the gesture.

Gbongbo, however, regretted that no government official or agency had visited nor sent relief materials to the camps in Keana.



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