Perturbed by the activities of bandits in the country, Leaders of socio-cultural organisations and local government chairmen in Benue have alleged that 1,773 people have been killed in the state by armed herdsmen between January 2018 and now.
The leaders, who disclosed this to newsmen at a press conference in Makurdi on Monday, said the number represented only those whose bodies were traced and accounted for.
The group, in a statement by the Ukum council boss, Steve Ayua, decried that killers no longer come with cows but with AK-47.
