The Defence Headquarters, Abuja, said on Thursday that the fresh rounds of killings in Benue State were being sponsored.
It added that the military would, however, soon apprehend both the killer herdsmen and their sponsors.
The Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. John Agim, stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents on Thursday, insisting that the military would not support any side in the violence that had been going on in Benue State.
Recalled that herdsmen, who blocked Gbeji-Anyinn Road in the Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, killed a soldier and a passerby on Monday.
On Tuesday, suspected herdsmen invaded a church in Mbalon in Gwer-East Local Area of the state and killed two Catholic priests and 17 other worshippers. Read more