PRESS RELEASE BY THE BUHARI YOUTH ORGANIZATION (BYO) ON THE INCESSANT KILLINGS AND MASSACRE BY HERDSMEN IN BENUE STATE.

On the recent killings and massacre of Benue people by the Fulani herdsmen in Guma and Logo LGA of Benue state, the Buhari Youth Organization (BYO) stand in avouchment and condemn this barbaric and boorish act.

It has been a protracted and extensive reportage around the nation on this dastardly act of Fulani herdsmen of killings, rendering communities in total disarray and jumbled state.

Benue state has recorded the highest scores of the incessant killings by herdsmen even after the state has enacted the anti-grazing bill, and ensuring safety and inviolability to its citizens. We the BYO assemblage therefore solicitously ask the federal government to kindly intervene in these looming atrocities hovering round the states of Nigeria.

Previously, there has been reports of this act of killings by herdsmen in Kaduna and Taraba State, where lives and properties have been lost and people are set ablaze. We are asking the law enforcement agencies to meliorate in their best possibly efforts to bring this upsurge to a calm and pacific overture.

We are also asking the federal government to ensure they brought to book and penalized these perpetrators to the divulgence and exposure of their heinous act to the people of Nigeria.

Meanwhile President Muhammadu Buhari recently has commiserated with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State over the reported killings, injury of several persons and wanton destruction of property in Guma and Logo Local Government Areas of the state in the New Year. President Buhari, while expressing sadness and despondency at the wicked and callous attacks, assured the governor and the good people of the state that relevant security agencies have been directed to do everything possible to arrest those behind the regrettable incidents and avert further attacks.

The Buhari Youth Organization BYO is hereby soliciting peace amongst the good people of Nigeria to always live in peace and harmony and to maintain mutual understanding not minding our cultural and ethnic diversities, and to always be our brothers’ keepers, being able to settle differences when matters of ill treatment or malign propelled, ensuring tranquility abide in this country. We therefore ask Nigerians to be law abiding in order to achieve our course and desideratum to move ours dear country forward and advancing.

Comrade Ubale Yusuf Nalado.
National President BYO

Mr. Arinze Monyelu.
Ag. Secretary BYO