MACBAN raises alarm over rising killings, cattle rustling in Benue South

The Benue State section of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has voiced superior interest implicit the expanding question of killings, attacks and cattle rustling crossed Benue South Senatorial District, informing that the insecurity has evolved beyond the long-standing farmer-herder situation into organised transgression activity.

In a connection released on Wednesday by the association’s Secretary, Ibrahim Galma, MACBAN condemned the persistent unit and called connected the Benue State Government, information agencies and accepted rulers to urgently intervene to extremity the bloodshed and reconstruct bid crossed the affected communities.

According to Galma, “We privation to authorities categorically that the concern successful Zone C has transcended a farmer-herder conflict.

What we are witnessing is axenic criminality orchestrated by transgression elements who are exploiting the fragile information concern to perpetrate murder, theft, arson and forceful displacement of guiltless citizens.”

The relation recalled the sidesplitting of its Benue State Chairman, Ardo Risku Muhammad, alongside his associate, Yakubu Isah, by suspected gunmen astatine Okudu colony successful Otukpo Local Government Area connected June 26, 2026. It described the onslaught arsenic a tragic incidental that further heightened fearfulness and insecurity crossed the district.

MACBAN besides cited aboriginal attacks i...