Suspectd Fulani herdsmen have reportedly killed at least 36 residents including students of the College of Education in Katsina Ala, Benue State.
According to SaharaReporters, the Fulani herdsmen stormed Shikaan Mbagena Kpav, a TIV community, in the early hours of Thursday, and carried out the massacre.
There are conflicting figures of casualties as some believed the attackers might have killed up to 100 residents.
The incident has sparked outrage among Nigerians on social media who are retweeting a hashtag, #BenueUnderAttack, and lamenting the ineptitude of the federal government and security agencies to address the situation of the killer herdsmen.
See some of the reactions on Twitter below:
look at innocent Benue people massacred by Fulani.This massacring keeps happening overtime and president buhari is mute about it.The day Benue rise up against fulani,fulani soldiers would begin bombardment on benue people. Maiduguri president buhari teams sokoto aunty Kate biafra pic.twitter.com/Jr5I3kMmy4
— Aku N'Esi Obi Ike ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (@Uzomaka_Kelechi) May 27, 2021
What have our parents done wrong that they haven’t been able to correct?
What have our brothers & sisters done wrong that they deserve such heartless and inhuman deaths as purnishment?
What have we done wrong that the govt. and law enforcement agency have left us to our fate?
— TERHEMBA TSEPAV #BenueUnderAttack (@ChiefTerhemba) May 21, 2021
Fulani herdsmen killed more than 36 recovered death Bodies at shikaan mbagena kpav katsina Ala Benue State . #BenueUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/z2JMHCYbVO
— Mayowa olagunju ❁ (@iam_doctormayor) May 28, 2021
If you see any Post with #BenueUnderattack , you don’t have to say anything or do anything just Retweet! The world needs to see the Genocide going on in Benue, Nigeria.
— Chlorpheniramine #EndSARS 🇳🇬 (@VictorIsrael_) May 28, 2021
Ortom needs to know that terrorists have opened a war on his people and he has to prepare his people to fight and protect themselves. Make we forget all the English wey we dey speak here. All of us dey mad! They are killing innocent Christians in Benue State #BenueUnderAttack
— FS Yusuf (@FS_Yusuf_) May 28, 2021
About 36 persons were killed just yesterday in Benue state, There’s serious genocide going on in Benue state.
How long will the people suffer this? Insecurity in the state is at it apex.
RETWEET AND PASS IT ON, LET THE WORLD KNOW.#BenueUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/CfMEI3CFme
— BENUEGIANT⚙️ #BenueUnderAttack (@one_dosh) May 28, 2021
Nigeria don't have a President. That Man in Aso Rock is not our President. Nigeria is Bleeding, Our Mothers, Sisters, Fathers are being Killed daily. Please we need help @CongressmanRaja 🙏🙏
Ghost | Wizkid | Genocide | Dubai Southern Kaduna | Igbos | Burna #BenueUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/qSbp6Z33cH
— Kiki Gani (@BlogKiki_) May 28, 2021
Fulani Herdsmen Attack on the good people have brazen and unprovoked with villages and communities attacked and razed
at night leading which can be described as a genocide and you can Agree with me we're Certainly Targetted #BenueUnderattack pic.twitter.com/lTBb809BJq— KWAFFY ❁ #BenueUnderattack. (@onlykwaffy_) May 28, 2021
Has the government given immunity to Fulani herdsmen in this country ? They are killing the indigenous occupants of Benue state and nothing is still being done.
This is pure Genocide 🤦♂️#BenueUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/rzTO79JvtL
— timi 🦅 (@timiPR) May 28, 2021
Benue state and some parts of the south east are under attack and the government and our news agency are saying nothing about it. Fulani herdsmen keeps wasting innocent lives daily but the government choose to send military men to Biafra land. What a pity#BenueUnderAttack nnpc pic.twitter.com/1ArVnky3SI
— GREAT~TONY™ (@Great_Tony1) May 28, 2021
As the killings keep rising and nothing substantial is being done, we all in Benue State and the entire Middle Belt may end up losing our lives, our identity and our land if we fail to rise up now! This is a genocide and must be referred to as such!! #BenueUnderAttack
— KATOR TARKAA (@KatorTarkaa) May 28, 2021
Over 150 people have been killed in Benue in the last 7 days by Armed Fulani Herdsmen.
There is a systematic genocide going on in the middle belt of Nigeria and it is largely under reported.#BenueUnderAttack#Genocide pic.twitter.com/hlgcozQ5kG
— BREAKINGTIMES (@BTBreakingTimes) May 28, 2021
This is not a farm, it's a graveyard of those killed by Fulani Herdsmen in Benue state #BenueUnderattack pic.twitter.com/xKy9UTGKrD
— KWAFFY ❁ #BenueUnderattack. (@onlykwaffy_) May 28, 2021
This comes just a few days after Governor Samuel Ortom has asked Benue people to pick up weapons not prohibited by law for self-defense against Fulani herdsmen.