By Onwe Wisdom |Pan Afric Reporters
Worried by the sustained attacks on Benue South communities by armed men, the senator representing Benue South Senatorial District and Senate Minority Leader, Comrade Abba Moro, PhD, on Thursday visited the American Embassy in Abuja to discuss the way forward with a view to ending the carnage and providing support for displaced persons.
Senator Moro has been having sleepless nights since the renewed attacks on Otukpo and Apa/Agatu communities, which have resulted in the death of several persons and properties worth millions of naira destroyed.
The senator, while expressing his frustration to the Political Front Desk Officer of the USA Embassy, Casandra Carraway said the killings of his constituents had become a recurrent decimal without any visible and deliberate efforts by government at all levels to nip it in the bud. He said his people had fled their ancestral homes and farms, and living in pitiable and unhealthy emergency camps.
Senator Moro according to a media report e-signed by his Media Adviser, Emmanuel Eche’Ofun John, expressed the fierce urgency for the Nigerian and American governments to engage meaningfully to end the carnage in the land. He called for urgent actions to end the attacks and return the victims to their homes to avert food crisis and outbreak of epidemics. He solicited the support and collaboration of American Embassy and the American government at large to end the security challenges plaguing Zone C, Benue State, and indeed Nigeria, and provide reliefs for the displaced persons.
Ms Carraway, in her response condemned the attacks, which she described as acts of terrorism. She said America would support willing governments across the globe to end terrorism and assured that the concern raised by Senator Moro would be taken up for necessary actions.
She sympathized with the senator and the people of Zone C over the killings and expressed optimism that solutions to the attacks would be found. The report said.
