By Udora Orizu
The House of Representatives has condemned the killing of about 70 persons in communities in Benue State by suspected herdsmen.
The lawmakers, at the plenary yesterday mandated the Committees on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, and Appropriations to “prevail on the Budget Office and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to ensure (that) adequate extra allocation is provided in any impending supplementary budget, and in NEMA’s 2022 budget to enable NEMA to provide monthly comprehensive intervention to IDP camps across Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states as is currently the case with IDP camps in Borno State.”
The House also urged the Ministry of Defence and the Nigerian Army to “immediately deploy more personnel and equipment, including surveillance and intelligence gathering technology to Operation Whirl Stroke operatives in Benue State, to enable them to tackle this resurgence of attacks by suspected herdsmen.”
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Various images have been shared online in Nigeria alongside false claims that they show clashes between national troops and a local militia in the country’s southeastern region last week. AFP Fact Check rounds up some of the viral posts spreading disinformation amid the ongoing turmoil.
Nigeria is battling unrest in different forms, including a decade-long Boko Haram insurgency, banditry and kidnapping, which has resulted in the creation of regional security outfits to address the violence in Africa’s most populous nation.
Tapping into the trend, the leader of Nigeria’s proscribed separatist movement Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, formed the Eastern Security Network (ESN) last December to protect the region “from the ravages of Fulani terrorism and extra judicial killings”.