The decision of the Federal Government to build 1000 housing units in seven states for Fulani herdsmen has again met with stiff resistance, as the leaders of Benue State socio-cultural groups and tribal leaders have vowed to resist plans by the Federal Government to build houses and settlements for Fulani herdsmen in any part of the state under any guise.
The leaders also frowned at what they called recent hasty announcement by the Federal Government of its intention to build the housing units in seven states including Benue, saying it smacked of mischief and would not be welcomed in the state.
The leaders, in a joint statement issued on Sunday and signed by the President General of Mzough U Tiv, (MUT) Woridwide, Iorbee Ihagh and the President General of Ochetoha k’Idoma (OKI), AVM Toni Adokwu(retd), maintained that no part of the state would be ceded for the construction of houses and colonies that would house Fulani herders when over two million Benue indigenes displaced by armed herders still reside in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps scattered across the state.
