Governor of Benue state Samuel Ortom has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to match words with action by deploying more troops to halt the senseless killings.
Ortom revealed that 134 lives were lost in five days in separate attacks by armed invaders in villages in Otukpo, Apa and Guma local government areas of the state.
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The governor described the attacks while speaking to journalists at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH) as heinous and cowardly.
He appealed to the community to be vigilant at all times to be able to repel subsequent attacks from the unknown gunmen.
