Benue youths kill hippopotamus terrorizing fishermen

Some Benue youths have killed a hippopotamus they said was terrorizing the waterways in Agatu Local Government Area of the State.

The incident News Band Newspaper gathered happened on Thursday, July 6, 2023, near Ebete, a village on the border between Benue and Nasarawa States.

A former media aide to the former governor of Benue State, Olikita Ekani, shared a video of the youths killing the animal with local tools.

“Agatu youths killed a monster that was terrorising their waterways between Adeke and Ebete,” he captioned the video.

“According to one of the eyewitnesses, the animal had stopped most of the fishermen from freely carrying out their legitimate occupation freely as they have kept them indoors, destroyed their canoes and wounded some fishermen.”

“He also added that the same animal was involved the eating up of farm produce and destruction of farm lands in the riverine villages in Agatu.

“It was alleged that the same animal also killed someone in Makurdi near the old bridge before escaping to Agatu through River Benue.”

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