By Fidel Ozugha
Fighting broke out at North Bank area of Benue State on Sunday and continued Monday.
The fight is between Tiv and Jukun natives of the state. Two people were killed in the renewed communal crisis according .Commander of a local vigilante known as Operation Shara (Sweep) in North Bank, Nura Umar, confirmed that two persons who were involved in menial job were killed in the heat of the crisis.
Umar said, “It’s really bad. Many houses were burnt in Agatashi community at the river bank of old bridge around timber shade and abattoir side. It’s a fight between Jukun and Tiv.
MD of Air Peace airlines, Barr Allen Onyema, right, and MD of United Nigeria airlines, Prof Obiora Okonkwo, left, embrace themselves as Air Peace launches Lagos-London route. Brothers in cooperation.
“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.”
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Benúe, SP Catherine Anene, is yet to make an official s did not yet respond to calls put through her telephone as at the time of filing this report.
