A farmer simply identified as Gabriel Vandefan has been killed by suspected armed herdsmen who attacked the Uikpam community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
It was gathered that the attackers had beheaded Vandefan, a former on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
The farmer was said to have been killed when he went to his farm on Thursday morning to harvest his millet.
The armed herders were said to have invaded the community and attacked unsuspecting farmers in Uikpam.
According to Jim Geoffrey, a former aide to Samuel Ortom, the ex-governor of Benue State, the killers also cut off the victim’s hand and went away with it.
Geoffrey said the attackers “also beheaded the victim and also cut off one of his hands and took it away”.
This recent attack in Benue comes barely weeks after over a hundred people were killed by suspected armed herdsmen in the Yelewata area of the state.
The killing of residents in different communities in Yelewata caused outrage which also forced the president to visit Makurdi Benue State.
