‘Our land has become a widow land’, Benue Women Stage protested the massacre by the Shepherds

Angry with the massacre that was taking place in their community, hundreds of women who grieve flooded the paths of Ugbokpo in the regional government area of ​​the state of Benue on Tuesday, demanding to end brutal murder by the armed shepherds that they said had turned their village into a “widow community.”

Under the banner of the voice of women who did not speak out in what, women containing placards launched a peaceful protest at 8 am, lined up through the streets of Ugbokpo with solemn songs and tears-soaring the massacre of husbands, children, and unpleasant neighbors.

The protest was triggered by the latest bloody attacks on Sundays which claimed 28 lives in the Ijaha, Ibele, Ochekwu, and Edikwu Ankpali community. Some others are injured in what the population described as invasion that is calculated and not provoked.

With the sadness written on their placards, women hold signs that read: “Fulani, stop killing our people”, “What is our land, not for Fulani”, “What, the Widow Community”, “The government has disappointed us”, “The government, came to help or die”, and “Fulani must go”.

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Ahead of the protest, the mourning women and members of the chapter from the Hunter group have sent formal letters to the authorities and security agencies entitled “Notification of Peace Demonstrations,” condemning the endless violence that infect their homeland.

In the letter, they regretted: “We took to the streets after the shepherds forcibly entered our agriculture, homes and rooms to kill and destroy our children, husbands, and loved ones, including our fellow women. And today, our children could barely go to school, our lives in danger, and our future is a mess.”

One of the women who led the protest, who asked for anonymity for fear of retaliation, condemned the absence of state and federal government, calling their silence “deafening and deadly.”

“The silence of the government is too golden. Even in the northeast where Boko is forbidden, they do not go to the houses of people to slaughter them like animals. But in Ankpali and other parts of what, the shepherds go from house to house, slaughtering people in inhuman murder and shurch.

The Women’s March stands as a burning cry for justice from a community covered by sadness, fear, and left – left to lament the dead while asking the Nigerian government to stop bloodshed and reclaim their homeland from terror.