The Coalition of Southern and Middle Belt Youth Leaders Assembly, COSMBYLA, has berated a 3-day ultimatum allegedly issued to members of Torkula community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State to vacate their land.
The coalition wondered how the assailants operate in the area despite heavy presence of military personnel.
In a statement issued and made available to journalists on Friday, COSMBYLA President General, Goodluck Egwu Ibem, wondered why the military officers who claimed they have neutralized loyalists of Gana, (a notorious terrorist killed in 202) are unable to do same to the bandits.
He alleged that: “The military and other security agencies should know that Nigerians are not fools and cannot be deceived by any unusual antics. How can the military be effective only when they see Gana boys and ineffective when Fulani militia kill Benue indigenes in broad daylight?
“We have it on good authority that the Fulani militias want to conquer the southern part of Nigeria through Benue State. They want to take over communities on river Benue through which they will sail to the oil-rich South-South states.
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“The plot to sack the communities along the Benue river is to avoid a situation where the people of those communities will see them sailing down to the South-South with their Fulani militias to attack the Niger Delta people.”
