Senate President, David Mark, on Thursday said that President Jonathan has instituted a panel to probe the bloody attack of a Benue community by armed Fulani herdsmen.
No fewer than 80 persons were killed when Fulani herdsmen invaded Egba community in Agatu local government area of the state in the early hours of last Sunday.
The herdsmen were said to have escaped to neighboring Nasarawa state across the River Benue after the attack.
David Mark, who visited the devastated community on Thursday, decried the damage done to the community.
He told survivors that the federal government would soon announce the composition of a committee that would investigate the sad development.
Mark, expressed shock at the level of destruction and killings in Egba community, which he described as a genocide.
He said the action of the perpetrators was nothing but absolute criminality which must be addressed as such. He said, “This is absolute criminality. All those involved in this barbaric killings must not go unpunished. Government will not tolerate this and all the security networks would be deployed to fish out the perpetrators.”
Mark also told survivors that the National Security council had met over the incident and that the president is already putting measures in place to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the killings with a view to finding a lasting solution to it.
He then called on the people to remain peaceful as government would deal with the situation.
Mark added that security has been beefed up to avert another invasion by the herders.
