President of Ochetoha K’Idoma Youth Wing Worldwide, Magagi Mike Alidu, has revealed that no support has been given to the victims of Fulani herders attack in the Benue South Senatorial District.
Alidu, who made this known in an interview with DAILY POST on Friday, decried the recent massacre of over 200 people by Fulani terrorists.
According to him, the victims from the Idoma speaking area of the state have been left to fend for themselves in the wake of the attacks in Otukpo, Agatu and Apa local government areas of the state.
“I can tell you for free that there is no adequate support. Not from the Federal Government or the state government. And the state government has not been supporting people from the Benue South Senatorial District, that is, the Idoma speaking area. I am from Agatu. There is no IDPs camp in Agatu. We have been attacked on several occasions and nothing has been done.
“Houses have not been rebuilt. People are not even rehabilitated. People are not psychologically brought back from their trauma. They are at their own mercies. No one, not even the government, has supported them. And things are very expensive in those areas.
“As I speak to you, even when the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) took food to IDP camps in Guma, Makurdi and other local government areas of the state, they did not take anything to Agatu, they did not take to Apa, they did not take to Otukpo.
“I am telling you this because I’m at the forefront of this. So there is no support from the state government and no adequate support from the Federal Government. And I also want to tell you that the supports are being politicised,” he said.
DAILY POST reports that Benue South Senatorial District comprises nine local government areas, out of which the Idoma ethnic group occupies seven while the Igede occupies two.
