US Congressman, Riley Moore has expressed worry over the scale of violence and humanitarian suffering in Benue State saying over 600,000 Christians presently reside in Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in the state.

The lawmaker made the disclosure on his X handle formally twitter, recounting what he described as “deeply harrowing stories.”

The lawmaker was in Benue state recently and his delegation visited some of the IDPs camp in the state.

Moore, who shared his observations after touring the camps in the state, said he met “dozens of Christians who were driven from their homes and subjected to horrific violence.”

According to him, the survivors’ accounts were “stories that will remain with me for the rest of my life.

“One woman was forced to watch as they killed her husband and five children,” he said, noting that the woman and her unborn child “barely escaped” the attack.

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Moore also narrated another survivor’s account of extreme brutality. “Another woman’s family was murdered in front of her and her baby was ripped from her womb,” he stated.

He added that a male survivor described how his family was “hacked to death before his eyes,” leaving the man with a permanently damaged arm.

Moore said the humanitarian scale in Benue was alarming, with “more than 600,000 Christians in IDP camps in Benue State alone,” according to figures he cited.

“These Christians should be able to live in their ancestral homeland without fear of genocidal Fulani,” he said.