Of the over 107 persons killed by militia suspected to be herders in Benue State on Friday, twenty-three of them were related to Prince Aondona Isaka Ornguga, a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-Governor Samuel Ortom on Local Government Administration.
Prince Ornguga announced this in an interview he granted Daily Trust in which he shared his last moments with some of the victims.
“I spoke with two of the victims -Victor Utim and Mathew Iormba – about three weeks ago. They are my first cousins from Tse Tarbee, my mother’s village. While Utim just wrote JAMB, and we were working on getting admission for him. Iormba told me he went to check his business around there.
“Iormba was a pharmacist. He had a tall dream, but look at how it all ended for them. And for Utim, this is not what we discussed,” an hugely bereaved Ornguga told the publication.
