Protesting youths in Benue state have blocked the Makurdi-Lafia highway with the bodies of seven people killed at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp located in Abagena community in Makurdi local government area of the state.
Sources said many people sustained injuries during the attack that took place Monday night.
Governor Samuel Ortom described the incident as “inhuman, barbaric and unacceptable.”
Ortom said over 70 persons had been killed in Makurdi local government in the last one week.
He said various communities across the state were suffering from the atrocities of gunmen.
The governor called on President Muhammadu Buhari to live up to his responsibility of protecting Nigerians.
“If the Federal Government had taken the issue of gunmen seriously, it wouldn’t have escalated to this level,” he said.