A recent spate of inter communal violence in North Bank, a neighborhood of Benue State’s Makurdi city, has tragically claimed at least two lives, set multiple homes on fire, and injured several locals.
On Sunday, hostilities between the Tiv and Jukun indigenous populations began, and they intensified further on Monday.
The victims were laborer’s caught up in the chaos of the situation, according to Nura Umar, the Commander of a neighborhood vigilante organization in North Bank known as Operation Shara (Sweep).
The conflict caused a great deal of damage and disturbance in the region, which heightened tensions and created a fearful atmosphere among the locals.
Umar said, “It’s really bad.
Many houses were burnt in the Agatashi community at the river bank of an old bridge around timber shade and abattoir side.
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It’s a fight between Jukun and Tiv.
“Two persons selling things on wheelbarrow were victims of the crisis. They were caught and killed. We buried them today.
Yesterday, Sunday, they shot two people while in church. They didn’t die; they are in the hospital.”
National Daily Newspaper gathered that the state police command has not yet commented on the situation as of the time this report was filed.