Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has blamed the state’s ongoing bloodshed on its geographic weakness, pointing fingers at infiltrators from neighboring regions and beyond international borders.
Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday, the governor stated that the state’s proximity to Cameroon, Nasarawa, and Taraba has made it a prime target for marauding attacks.
“We share borders with Cameroon, Taraba, and Nasarawa,” he explained, adding that individuals who routinely assault the state enter across the frontiers.
The Benue State Governor went on to say, “They weren’t necessarily Nigerians speaking Hausa or Fulani.
“When to approach the Nasarawa axis. Here, we face numerous problems. There are several events taking place in Nasarawa State, and there are routes by which these individuals travel whenever they are relocated from Benue. What we see now, if somebody defines it as retaliation, we wouldn’t say no.”
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Alia stated that he spoke with his Nasarawa colleague, Abdullahi Sule, and received intelligence that “terrorists were coming into his state through Benue.”
“When I told him that the havoc had already been caused at Yelewata in Benue, then he said probably, they came and made a touchdown in Yelewata in Benue and were going back because he said one person was macheted in Nasarawa State.”
