Survivors of the Yelewata attack currently taking refuge in the temporary camp located at the International Market, Makurdi, have rejected the call to return home.
No fewer than 3,000 displaced persons from the Yelewata community are currently taking refuge in the camp, after the gruesome murder of about 200 people in coordinated attacks on the community by suspected armed herders on June 13, 2025.
News men gathered that traditional rulers and stakeholders from the community were mounting pressure on their people to return home, as a result of the infiltration of the temporary camp by other displaced persons.
The Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Aondowase Kumde, recently raised the alarm of infiltration of the camp by market women, criminals and people from the host community, further saying that at least 50 infiltrators had been arrested.
