By Peter Duru, Makurdi
The National President of the Middle Belt Forum, MBF, Dr. Bitrus Pogu has said there no truth in the claim by the presidency that criminal herdsmen were being arrested and tried across the country.
Speaking to Vanguard in Makurdi, Dr. Pogu said, “what we know is that there are some instances in Zanfara state where some of these people were apprehended as kidnappers.
“It has been in the news. But beyond the Zamfara case which is about kidnappers, throughout the Middle Belt when they were massacring people in Benue, Niger and other places we do not have any record of anyone apprehended over the years.
Life has become cheap, people die in dozens daily Nobody is safe anymore in Nigeria Terrorists, bandits have overwhelmed the country
Dayo Johnson, Akure; Chidi Nkwopara, Owerri; Ola Ajayi, Ibadan; Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa; Umar Yusuf,Yola; Peter Duru, Makurdi; Tina Akannam, Dutse; Marie-Therese Nanlong, Jos; Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo; Ozioruva Aliu, Benin; Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano and James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta
On Saturday November 28 this year, Nigerians woke up to very disturbing news. In Zabarmari community in Jere Local Government of Borno state, Boko Haram terrorists stormed the rice farms where farmers were harvesting, tied them up and slit their throats.
According to the state governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, more than 70 farmers were slaughtered, but 43 bodies were recovered and buried on Sunday November 29. Outrage greeted this barbaric act both from local and the international community. In his immediate response to the massacre, President Muhammadu Buhari condemned th
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Life has become cheap, people die in dozens daily
Nobody is safe anymore in Nigeria
Terrorists, bandits have overwhelmed the country
We cannot continue like this
Dayo Johnson, Akure; Chidi Nkwopara,
Owerri; Ola Ajayi, Ibadan; Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa; Umar Yusuf,Yola; Peter Duru, Makurdi; Tina Akannam, Dutse; Marie-Therese Nanlong, Jos; Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo; Ozioruva Aliu, Benin; Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano and James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta
Nigerians woke up to very disturbing
news. In Zabarmari community in Jere Local Government of Borno state, Boko Haram terrorists stormed the rice farms where farmers were harvesting, tied them up and slit their throats. According to the state governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, more than 70 farmers were slaughtered, but 43 bodies were recovered and buried on Sunday November 29. Outrage greeted this barbaric act both from local and the international community. In h