Nigeria, June 23 -- Benue State has been struck by massive tragedy and grief, following the massacre of over 200 persons in Yelwata in Guma Local Government Area, by a band of savages that invaded the community. Houses were burnt, with thousands of people maimed and hospitalised. The survivors are now homeless, and gripped by immortal fear.

The malevolence, however, is not new to the state. But it has awoken the country's political establishment and security agencies, yet again, to the challenges of such attack - a most horrifying act of barbarity, for which the world has joined Nigerians in condemning and calling for decisive action of the authorities for its end.

Consequently, President Bola Tinubu visited the state last Wednesday, to...