The renewed attacks on Benue communities have raised fresh concerns among natives and stakeholders.

This comes amid revelation by the member representing Kwande/Ushongo federal constituency of Benue State, Hon. Terseer Ugbor said that the armed Fulani herdsmen had taken over 40% of farmlands in the state.

The lawmaker, who disclosed this during an interactive chat with journalists, raised concern over fresh attacks by Fulani militias which has led to the killing and displacement of several persons in Kwande LGA.

He said that the major problem with this issue is the food insecurity that it is going to bring especially on our people in Benue and Nigeria as a whole because as of the last information we have, over 40 percent of the arable farmlands in Benue State have been taken over by the Fulani bandits.

Hon Ugbor recalled the attack by Fulani herdsmen during the 2024 Christmas on Kwande Local Government, which is a border community with Cameroon.

He said it got so bad that the bandits had the audacity to attack an immigration outpost and the only standing security presence in the community with Cameroon and burnt it down.

Ugbor revealed that, the immigration outpost did not necessarily have equipment or arms to defend itself.

The incident, which occurred during a hunting expedition in the community, also forced women and children to flee from the affected communities for fear of being killed by the rampaging herdsmen.

The government should without delay do something to forestall the recurrence of this incident, he said Farming season is staring at us in the face. If these people whose major occupation is farming are displaced, how would they survive.

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