Benue: Gunmen Kill Three Relatives Of Gov Ortom

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have killed three kinsmen of the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom.

It was gathered that the gunmen killed victims on Saturday at about 5 pm in an ambush launched at the Lordye- Gbajimba road in Guma Local Government Area of the state.

The Governor’s kinsmen who are two males and a female were riding a motorcycle when they were ambushed and shot dead by the gunmen.

Security agencies after recovering the bodies disclosed that the victims were shot dead on the spot while others were brutally macheted to death.

Soldiers attached to Operation Whirl Stroke recovered the bodies and deposited the corpses at Gbajimba general hospital.

The spokesman to the Benue Governor, Nat Ikyur in a statement released on Saturday night said, “this has been the plight of Benue indigenes in the hands of Fulani herdsmen who have invaded the state in a bid to take over our ancestral lands”.