Worried about the continued attacks and killing of its members by alleged Fulani herdsmen, the Catholic Church has approached the international community to find succour for their plight.
The Bishop of Makurdi Diocese in Benue State, Most Reverend Dr. Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, who gave the hint on Monday, expressed concern over the killing of people and destruction of churches and schools by armed Fulani herdsmen that invade communities of the State.
Anagbe, who disclosed this during the commissioning of a new ultra-modern laboratory at the Bishop Murray Hospital under the Makurdi Catholic Diocesan Global Integrated Health Initiative, said the Church is already planning to file the case at the Vatican, Rome, to seek justice on the destruction of infrastructure built by the Church but destroyed by the terrorists.
He listed areas where such facilities were destroyed and Christians and school children thrown out of school to include Tse-Torkula and Udei all in Guma Local Government Area.
“The herdsmen have destroyed all the hospitals the Catholic Church has built in Tse-Torkula, Udei and other places. We are already going to institute a case about that not just here (in Nigeria) but at the Vatican on the infrastructural facilities they have destroyed,” he said.