CHANNELS TV
Survivors of attacks on communities in Agatu Local Government by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen have called on the Nasarawa State Government to implement the peace agreement signed with Benue State.
The survivors, on Saturday, urged the State Government to also put a leach on the militia herders.
The traditional ruler of Obagaji and the survivors made the call when a member representing Agatu in the Benue State House of assembly, Mr Audu Sule, visited the affected communities to see the level of destruction carried out by the imposing herdsmen.
Although, both the Army and Police had been mobilized to Agatu Local Government Area where over 20 villages were overran by the herdsmen, the security forces have not been able to subdue the Fulani militia.
Security forces said that the armed Fulani herdsmen with over 5,000 cattle, confronted them at Okokolo at the banks of the River Benue.
The crisis left a huge number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who now share public schools with students during school hours.
The IDPs said life has been difficult, as little is being done to help them cope with the displacement.
Some of the young men left behind in Obagaji, the headquarters of Agatu Local Government Area to defend their homes, told Channels Television that the herdsmen were still occupying six villages as at Friday, February 26.
Chief James Edoh, said that three pregnant women put to bed along the road while fleeing from the crisis.
The Chief further lamented the inability of his people to recover the corpses of their loved ones for proper burial.
The member representing Agatu in the Benue State House of assembly, Mr Sule, urged the Nasarawa State Government to uphold their end of the peace deal, which the Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Silas Agara, insisted is on course.
The renewed clashes after both Governors of Benue and Nasarawa State had convened a peace meeting have underscored the need for the Federal Government to step into the crisis and end hostilities.
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