{"id":63659,"date":"2025-04-02T09:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63659"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:39:27","slug":"panic-over-false-alarm-claims-farmers-life-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/02\/panic-over-false-alarm-claims-farmers-life-in-benue\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic Over False Alarm Claims Farmer\u2019s Life in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A wave of fear swept through Usha community in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State as a 54-year-old farmer, Jeremiah Onuminya, collapsed and died following a false alarm about an attack by suspected herders.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses reported that Onuminya was on his way to the farm on Monday, March 31, when some youths suddenly screamed, &#8220;Fulani! Fulani!!&#8221; in terror.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to flee, he ran a short distance before collapsing near his home, where he was later confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic incident came amid rising tension in the community after the alleged poisoning of 20 cows on a nearby farm, fueling fears of reprisal attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the event, the Chairman of Agatu Local Government, Melvin James, expressed condolences to the family and cautioned against spreading unverified information.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that security reports and family testimonies indicated that Onuminya\u2019s death was due to exhaustion, not an actual attack.<\/p>\n<p>James advised residents to remain calm and refrain from raising false alarms, warning that unnecessary panic could disrupt the fragile peace in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A wave of fear swept through Usha community in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State as a 54-year-old farmer, Jeremiah Onuminya, collapsed and died following a false alarm about an attack by suspected herders. Eyewitnesses reported that Onuminya was on his way to the farm on Monday, March 31, when some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63661,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659\/revisions\/63661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}