Benue 2027: I will be governor whether they like it or not — Shija boasts

The governorship campaigner of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, successful Benue State, Prof Terhemba Shija, has pledged to unopen down each internally displaced persons (IDP) camps crossed the authorities if elected politician successful 2027.

Shija said his projected medication would deploy drones, closed-circuit tv (CCTV) cameras and different information strategies to combat insecurity, reconstruct bid to affected communities and alteration displaced residents to instrumentality to their ancestral homes.

The NDC campaigner made the committedness successful Makurdi, wherever helium outlined his plans to support lives and property, fortify information operations and guarantee that individuals progressive successful transgression activities look prosecution.

He described the prolonged enactment of thousands of Benue residents successful IDP camps arsenic unacceptable, insisting that citizens displaced by insecurity should not beryllium forced to unrecorded indefinitely extracurricular their communities.

“On presumption of office, I volition adjacent down each IDP camps successful the state. I person done my probe and judge powerfully that it is the close happening to do,” helium declared.

Explaining his projected information framework, Shija said his authorities would harvester technological interventions with military-style operations and non-violent measures to code the persistent information challenges confronting the state.

“I volition employment the usage of drones an...