The assault did by associated herders in the limit region with Ebonyi/Benue last Sunday influenced seven villages of Ndigwe, Ataloga, Odokem, Ekile, Nduobasi,, Ekpufu and Obakota, Vanguard can legitimately report. The assault prompted the passing of more than 30 indigenes of Ebonyi while a few survivors are as yet getting treatment at the Alex-Ekweme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. In a proclamation, the Executive Chairman of Ado Local Government Area of Benue State, Chief James Oche said "Activity Whirlstroke Military Outfit after we contacted them, helped rescue the resulting slaughter by repulsing the assaults and constraining the aggressors to pull out." According to the Statement: "In the early long periods of Sunday, May 30, 2021, herders in their numbers correspondingly assaulted a few Igbo talking networks of Ado Local Government Area of Benue State.
   They released a remarkable level of dread, killing no less than 30 people as at the hour of this delivery. "The people group most exceedingly terrible hit by the assault are; Ndigwe town, Ataloga town, Odokem, Ekile town, Nduobasi town, Ekpufu and Obakota towns. The occupants of these towns have been totally dislodged. While others have lost their lives, many are yet to be found and have stayed missing. "It was the reaction of the Operation Whirlstroke Military Outfit after we contacted them that aided rescue the following slaughter by repulsing the assaults and driving the attackers to pull out. "We censure in solid terms this assault and wish to say that it is one such a large number of an invasion on our kin and the pulverization endured is better envisioned. We have a new circumstance of around 3000 inside uprooted people brought about by this assault notwithstanding the 2000 we had from past assaults. "While there are suggestions from unconfirmed sources that the assault was a backlash for IPOB's supposed homicide of a herder, we completely state with accentuation that, Benue State isn't and can never be involved with IPOB fomentation and assaulting our kin on IPOB related issues is a thing we won't acknowledge. "Considering the following homicide of our kin by these herders, we ask our kin to ascend and make all strides as might be important to give self protection to themselves, as it is fainthearted to remain arms-collapsed and be killed directly in our homes. "We further appreciate and vow our steadfastness to the public authority of Benue State.
   


 The Anti-Open Grazing and Ranches Establishment Law of our state stands and we are focused on its requirement regardless. We approach the government to satisfy its obligation of ensuring the lives and property of Nigerians, as the developing uncertainty is quick transforming the country into the Hobbean condition of nature. "We ask our kin not to be debilitate, however to ascend to the assignment with regards to our country, as we will keep on supporting in the most ideal manner, time and assets would manage the cost of us.

Umahi Carrying out an on the spot appraisal of the assault on Izzi Community in Benue State, Chief Onyekachi Nwebonyi, Commissioner for Capital City Development, Ebonyi State, depicted the assault as primitive and savage and ordered individuals to try to avoid panicking yet watchful. He portrayed as troubling, the ceaseless assaults on unarmed and helpless residents by raiding herders while the central government keeps reserved. He expressed that Ebonyi State government under Governor David Umahi is investigating every possibility in ensuring that the lives and property of inhabitants of the state are secured.         He further denounced the lazy demeanor of the Benue State government and asked why the Benue State government couldn't show any worry or activity when individuals they guarantee are their own are being slaughtered and their property annihilated wantonly, even after the bloodletting. He expressed that the episode has plainly shown that Benue State doesn't acknowledge individuals of the space either ethnically or topographically.
           He said there is an inquiry to reply on why individuals of Ado and Oju LGAs of Benue State could permit the assailants free admittance to assault Izzi individuals and leave after the occurrence with no obstacle. The entire thing, he said, likens to something off-putting. He anyway recognized the Ebonyi State lead representative for his speedy reaction and prompt dispatch of alleviation materials to the influenced local area. He said the way that the Governor of Ebonyi State took brief reaction and obligation of the clinical treatment of those harmed in the assault showed that he perceives individuals as Ebonyians, which they genuinely are. Other benevolent Ebonyi partners like the Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Francis Nwifuru and the Chairman of Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mrs. Chinyere Nwoagbaga have contacted the survivors of the Sunday assault.