Chemical Weapons Was Actually Used in Benue Killings - NAFDAC DG

The National Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii has made a public disclosure that substances suspected to be chemical weapons were actually used by he suspected Fulani Herdsmen in the killing of over 200 farmers in Benue State .

Informing the journalists yesterday, in Makurdi Orhii tasks the Federal Government to institute a probe into the alleged chemical killings in order to ascertain the type of poisonous substances used in the attack.

While donating relief materials to the displaced victims of the clashes between herdsmen and farmers at camps in Makurdi, the state capital and Guma Local Government Area of the state, the NAFDAC Boss sad, “I saw some of the chemical's canisters containing the chemicals that were used in killing the people; we have gathered them for analysis to actually know what they were."

Unknown gunmen kill 19, kidnap 17 in Benue

As the security situations in Benue state remain unfavourable will the acclaimed and continuous Fulani herdsmen killing spree, no fewer than 19 persons among them women and children were yesterday killed by unknown gunmen while 17 others were abducted in different villages of Agatu Local Government Area of the Benue State. 

Agatu Local Government Chairman, Hon. Stephen Dutse told newsmen in Makurdi yesterday that the attackers stormed, Olegaje, Ogumogbo, Ejuma and Ogbagaji, headquarters of the local government about 10pm in a guerrilla manner and started shooting sporadically making the people to run for dear life.