- Safiu Kehinde
The Chairman of Guma Local Government Area of Benue state, Maurice Orwough, has expressed his frustration and plan to quit his chairmanship following the killing of over 200 residents of Yelewata town located within the LGA.
NPO Reported that suspected armed Fulani herdsmen had stormed the town over the weekend, burning several residents alive in their homes while shooting and hacking others to death.
The incidents had since been strongly condemned across the nation and by international bodies.
While President Bola Tinubu had yesterday announced plan to visit Benue on Wednesday, Orwough, in a video shared on Instagram on Tuesday, vented his anger and frustration with the incessant killings.
Addressing the residents during his visit to the community where bodies of the deceased victims were laid on the road, the Guma council chairman disclosed burying five victims of the attack yesterday.
Amongst the victims was a father and his two sons who are both over 40 years old.
Orwough expressed his intention to quit, stressing that he cannot continue to be the chairman of people killed daily by assailants as he pointed to the butchered body of a boy lying among the deceased victims.
“So my people should be killed, my people should die more before the government can talk about this? What is the meaning of this?
“Yesterday, I buried five people, a father and two of his sons of over 40 to 50 years. What is the meaning of this.
“If they cannot help, maybe I will leave this position as the chairman and let it continue the way it is.
“I don’t care about being the chairman of people that are all killed. What is the meaning of this? Look at a child of two years old butchered with cutlass.” He said.