Scores killed in Benue communal clash

UNCONFIRMED number of persons were killed,
over 40 houses razed and property worth millions
of naira destroyed, yesterday, during a communal
crisis in Mbayion, Gboko Local Government Area
of Benue State.
According to an eyewitness, the crisis resulted in
the destruction of graves, exhumation of corpses,
destruction of cash crops, economic trees and
farmlands worth millions of naira, while hundreds
of people were displaced.
He said trouble started when the family of Ormo
Juku of Mbajov, Mbaasakera, Mbayion in Gboko
Local Government Area discovered that the grave
of their late father, Gesa Ormo, who was buried
on Sunday, October 22 was destroyed, his body
exhumed and taken to an unknown destination.
A victim of the crisis, Mr. Iorgema Ormo, who
spoke on behalf of the family, said the crisis had
existed for many years.
Efforts to get the reaction of the state police
spokesman, ASP Moses Yamu, failed as several
calls made to his cell phone did not go through