Suspected herdsmen reportedly stormed Chille Island in the Mbatoho area, a suburb community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue state and ordered the residents to vacate.
The police commissioner confirmed the incident
Mr. John Terhemen who is the leader of the community led other members to the office of the deputy governor, Engineer Benson Abounu to narrate their ordeal in the hands of the herdsmen.
He said the herdsmen asked them to vacate their lands to allow them graze their cattle.
He however said the invaders “did not harm anyone and did not burn down our home, they simply asked us to leave.”
Fatai Owoseni, the commissioner of police in the state also confirmed the report saying ‘we have received a report about that’
The deputy governor said they had gotten report of the story and wanted to comfirm it veracity
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