7. AN ORDER of this honorable Court directing the Respondent to set up forth with a high powered investigative Panel to enquire into the atrocities committed by Fulani Herdsmen against Benue Communities over the years particularly this year and implements its findings forthwith. 8. AN ORDER of this Honorable Court directing the Respondent to pay to the Plaintiffs and the affected communities in Benue State compensation in the sum of N500 Billion ( Five Hundred Billion Naira) only. 9. AN ORDER of the Honorable Court directing the Respondent to pay the Plaintiffs and the affected communities in Benue State damages in the sum of N500 Billion (Five Hundred Billion Naira) only on the footing of exemplary and aggravated damages for unlawful violation of the Plaintiffs rights, the Respondent actions being negligent, oppressive, arbitrary, capacious, and for injuring the dignity and pride of the Plaintiffs and for causing them great physical and psychological trauma. 10. AN ORDER directing the Respondent to pay to the Plaintiffs the sum of N25 million Naira only being cost of prosecuting this suit. 11. Interest at the rate of 25% (twenty five per centum) per annum on the judgment sum awarded from the date of judgment until the judgment sum is fully liquidated. RESPONDENTS CASE. 9. The 1st-4th Respondents filed their statement of defence and in response denied paragraph 6, 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of the Respondents’ summary of facts as untrue, baseless and unsupported by facts. The Respondents stated that the crisis that engulfed the Benue State of Nigeria and its environment were as a result of tribal and ethnic differences between the Agatu community and the Fulani community over farming and rearing of animals. That this fact was established by various panels of enquiry set up at different times in a bid to proffer solution. 10. That the crisis between the two rival communities are not based on security lapses or the inability of the Federal or State Governments to protect the lives and properties of the people of Benue state. That during the said crisis, security agencies were deployed to the Agatu community for the purpose of ensuring the protection of lives and properties in the interest of peace and security. That they employed the use of both the print and electronic media to ensure that the people 6