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The earth in Mbamondo Ukembergya, Logo Local Government Area, received four fresh graves on Thursday, 4th December 2025, as an entire community gathered in raw anguish to bury four members of the Juku Anjov family murdered in cold blood by suspected Fulani herdsmen barely a week ago.
Under a sky heavy with grief, mourners (men, women, children, the old and the young) wept uncontrollably as the caskets bearing a father, mother, and two of their children were lowered one after another. The attack, which happened in the dead of night, wiped out an entire household in minutes, leaving behind only echoes of gunfire and screams that still haunt survivors.
Eyewitnesses say the gunmen stormed the compound around 1 a.m., shooting indiscriminately and hacking anyone who tried to escape. By dawn, four lives had been snuffed out, and a family destroyed forever.
“We no longer sleep with both eyes closed,” a trembling resident whispered at the burial ground. “Every night we wait for footsteps, for gunshots. We are living in trauma every day. Only God is keeping the rest of us alive.”
The burial comes just days after Governor Hyacinth Alia once again cried out for state police, insisting that only locally rooted security architecture can end the carnage that has turned Benue’s once-fertile farmlands into killing fields.
Yet for the people of Logo, Katsina-Ala, Ukum, and the entire Sankera region, promises and press statements no longer bring comfort. They have buried too many, mourned too much, and watched too many children grow up as orphans because armed herders keep returning with impunity.
As the last shovel of sand fell on the graves and the crowd slowly dispersed, one thing was clear: the tears in Mbamondo Ukembergya are not just for the Juku Anjov family. They are tears for a people tired of burying their own, tears for a tomorrow that still feels dangerously uncertain.
