Gun-totting young men stormed the towns of Ogobia and Ondo in Ugboju, Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State last week Wednesday and Thursday last week and by the time they left, four persons including a retired Major, Lawrence Ugboh, lay dead.
Some houses, vehicles were also set ablaze in the attack said to have been masterminded by two brothers, over disagreements arising from land sales royalties.
In the case of Major Ugboh, a former state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), hisassailants, after hacking him to death, hauled him into his car, poured fuel on the vehicle and then set it ablaze, thereby reducing his corpse to ashes. His house in Ogobia Town and three other cars in his compound were also set on fire.