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The residents of Agatu community have taken up arms and ammunition in a reprisal against Fulani herdsmen attacks.
Blessing Joseph lies on a sofa, her eyes fixed on the butt of a rifle that she says she won’t hesitate to use if Fulani herdsmen come back to her remote village in central Nigeria.
The 19-year-old student isn’t the only one.
Teenagers and even young boys carry machetes and daggers in villages in the Agatu area of Benue state.
“My father told me not to go out without holding a cutlass with which I can defend myself if attacked,” David Inalegwu, a nine-year-old primary school pupil, told AFP.
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Blessing Joseph lies on a sofa, her eyes fixed on the butt of a rifle that she says she won’t hesitate to use if Fulani herdsmen come back to her remote village in central Nigeria.
The 19-year-old student isn’t the only one.
Teenagers and even young boys carry machetes and daggers in villages in the Agatu area of Benue state.
“My father told me not to go out without holding a cutlass with which I can defend myself if attacked,” David Inalegwu, a nine-year-old primary school pupil, told AFP.
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