The Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders, CONYL, has decried the latest assaults and killings in Benue State communities by armed males suspected to be Fulani herders.
reporter studies that hardly 24 hours after over 50 individuals had been murdered by the killer herdsmen in Ukum Native Authorities Space of the state on Wednesday, about 16 others had been killed in Wandor, Mbaikyor neighborhood of Gwer East LGA on Thursday.
The invaders additionally razed over 50 homes in the neighborhood, rendering residents homeless.
Reacting, the coalition, in an announcement issued by its President Normal, Goodluck Ibem lamented that farmlands and meals gadgets had been “destroyed by the terrorists at a time Nigerians are dying of starvation, hardship and hunger.
In keeping with Ibem, the starvation and hardship at the moment ravaging “our nation as we speak is on account of the sequence of assaults on the meals basket of the nation”.
“No nation can survive if it fails to guard sources of meals from invaders and terrorists. Meals stays the spine of any nation and with out meals, no nation can survive.
“We due to this fact name on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to right away launch all of the navy arsenals towards the terrorists who’re hell-bent on seeing Nigerians die of starvation, hardship and hunger”, the assertion added.
