Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has charged that certain National Assembly members are responsible for funding the attacks in the state.
In an interview with Channels Television’s “Politics Today” program on Friday, the governor made the accusation and stated that it is intolerable.
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An interim report from a judicial group he established accused numerous prominent figures, according to Alia, who did not identify the lawmakers.
The Benue Governor, however, vowed to take up the matter as soon as he receives the full report next week.
“It is very, very unsettling because top politicians who are very functional and are in the National Assembly and are in Abuja, are the architects and arrowheads of not just instigating, but harbouring and keeping these people and feeding them in the bushes, and taking care of all their needs and buying all the other gadgets for them.
“This is extremely unacceptable. If they do not love the lives of the people and they’re only fighting for their own position, I think I am serving the interest of the common masses and it is a concern to me, and it is my right to protect it.
“We set up a judicial panel to sort out for us why we kept having attacks from within and from without, and we have received an interim report. Between Tuesday and Wednesday next week, I am going to get a full report from the panel,” he said.
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Recall that suspected armed herdsmen launched a new attack on the Makurdi–Naka road on Friday, leaving many people hurt and several others thought dead. This is yet another attack amid the numerous others launched on different benue communities
Despite repeated promises of military action, armed Fulani militia groups are reported to have maintained control of the Makurdi–Naka road for weeks.
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