This baby will never know her
mother. Her mother will never sing lullaby to her or rock her to sleep. Worse
still, she will never suckle from her mother’s breast.
This is because just one week after
her birth, suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded their community in Mbalaagh
Council Ward of Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State and murdered her
mother, Felicia Asongo.
The baby, who looks so smallish for
her age, was lucky to have been smuggled away from the crisis by her
grandmother during the attack in which 27 people were allegedly killed. She is
now being fed with baby milk under the watchful eyes of her aged grandmother.
For more than two weeks now, over
200 members of the Mbalaagh Community have been taking refuge in the North Bank
area of Makurdi, with some of them sleeping under trees after the gruesome
invasion.