No fewer than 160 persons, including two soldiers and a popular police officer, have been killed in Benue state in the last one month in the most horrendous attacks by armed herdsmen. The attacks, which sparked widespread outrage, aside from claiming lives, also left several communities in ruins.
Women in Benue state, therefore, took to the streets a couple of days ago, demanding immediate action from the government to end the carnage, saying the attackers were turning them into widows. This is just as Professors of Tiv extraction have advocated a resort to self-help if the government is incapable of defending the people.
A timeline of these attacks clearly gave an insight into the level of carnage and the burden the people are left to grapple with in the face of the incursions.
Timeline of attacks
Available records of the bloody onslaughts in the last month indicated that on May 2, 2025 the marauders invaded Akpete community in Apa Local Government Area, LGA, killing four persons while several others sustaining injuries and some others went missing.
On May 4, the marauders reportedly killed two passengers of a commercial vehicle, after shooting the driver and abducted four others along the Adoka-Otukpo road in Otukpo Local Government Area, LGA. (Vanguard)