{"id":30,"date":"2018-03-15T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-03-25T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:51:13","slug":"fulani-herdsmen-invade-kogi-communities-kill-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Fulani herdsmen invade Kogi communities, kill 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Blood reportedly flowed freely in the early hours of Wednesday when some suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded Oganeinugu<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>community in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State and massacre no few than 20 people.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Also, about two people were said to be killed in an adjoining town of Iyale where the people of Oganeinugu ran to take refuge.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Similarly, it was gathered that another group of Fulani herdsmen simultaneously launched attacks on five other communities, namely Obakume, Idrisu, Ogo, Ayojeju-Ikboba all in Omala Local Government Area of the state killing several people and setting their houses ablaze.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">According to an eyewitness account, the bandits were said to have killed four people in one house belonging to a serving policeman, wiping the whole family .<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">As at the time of filing in this report, the killings were<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>said to<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>be ongoing as members of the community were said to be running helter-skelter while<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>the actual casualty figures was still unknown.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Investigations revealed that the killings by herdsmen in Kogi State has increased to a frightening dimension following the blanket invitation Governor Yahaya Bello gave to all Fulani herdsmen late last year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">The governor, who was the first to embrace the establishment of the then proposed cattle colonies, even threatened to depose any traditional ruler who failed to cooperate with the Fulani herdsmen.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Many were reportedly missing after fleeing into bushes, which made it difficult to have a clear figure of the dead or wounded.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Meanwhile, there were reports that a new set of Fulani herdsmen\/ terrorists have crossed into Omala Local Government Area of the state through the River Benue from Nasarawa State.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood reportedly flowed freely in the early hours of Wednesday when some suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded Oganeinugu\u00a0 community in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State and massacre no few &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}