The Ter Tyoshin, HRH Daniel Abomtse, has confirmed the attack on Tse-Ortwav, Ikyaghav Ward of Gwer West Local Council in Benue State by Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of yesterday, killing one man.
Villagers, who fled the attack, told The Guardian that many houses at Tse-Ortwav, a village close to Naka town, the headquarters of Gwer West, were razed.
Another attack was carried out on Boikyo, the same yesterday, in Ukum Local Council also by herdsmen, in which a young man identified as Hilenen Luter was killed. This latest wave of attacks is coming on the heels of a two-week ultimatum issued the herders by the state government last Wednesday.
Alarmed by renewed influx of cattle and herders into the state, Governor Hyacinth Alia, after a security council meeting, had announced that the state’s anti-open grazing law was still in existence and gave the herders two weeks to “go back to where they came from” or face sanctions.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Catherine Anene, could not be reached for comment, as her mobile phone was switched off. MEANWHILE, Boko Haram terrorists have destroyed two electric transmission towers, plunging residents of Borno and Yobe states into darkness.
The 330KVA power transmission line from Gombe State provides electricity to towns and other communities along the Maiduguri/Damaturu/Gombe road.
Confirming the incident, yesterday, in Damaturu, the spokesman of Yobe State Police Command, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed: “The Boko Haram destroyed two 330KVA power transmission towers,” adding that the development plunged residents of the two states into darkness since Saturday.
He said the terrorists used Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to bring down the two electric towers to the ground.
On the exact location of destruction, Abdulkarim said: “The torched transmission towers are sited in Kasaisa Community of Damaturu Local Council.”
The Saturday felling of electric towers was the second in three months, butwas fixed by the Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) and Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) last month.
