Weeping as gunmen kill five in Benue community

Gunmen suspected to be remnants of the slain Benue warlord, Terwase Akwaza aka Gana, have killed five people at Pevya town i in Katsina Ala area of Benue  State.

The Nation gathered  the suspected gunmen stormed a drinking joint where there target was relaxing with friends on Wednesday which happened to be market day in the community.

According to a source, the gunmen trailed a man identified as Oliver, a member of Vigilante Community Volunteer Guard, CVG,to the joint where they shot him and four others to death.

Several others sustained gunshot injuries and were taken to the near by clinic for treatment .

A member of the community, who pleaded anonymity, claimed that Oliver was killed because he had been an informant to security operatives in the area.

“There is a member of Vigilante Community Guards that was shot by local bandits at pevya with four others. His name is Oliver.

“We leant that the man has been a target of the bandits for  sometime now because they believed that he was an informant to security men in the area. Nation