Gov Alia reacts as terrorists attack Benue community, gun down scores

Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has condemned a caller onslaught connected the Saai assemblage of Mbajir ward successful the Katsina-Ala Local Government Area by terrorists.

A connection issued by the governor’s media aide, Tersoo Kula said the incident, which occurred on Wednesday morning, besides near respective persons injured.

According to Kula, the onslaught was carried retired by “terrorists masquerading arsenic herdsmen”.

The governor, according to the statement, described the calamity arsenic a “senseless battle connected guiltless citizens”.

The connection added, “This onslaught is an ugly, cowardly and unacceptable enactment of violence, peculiarly coming astatine a important clip erstwhile our hardworking farmers who person returned to their ancestral lands are cultivating their farms.

“These enemies of advancement person chosen to disrupt the bid and nutrient information of our authorities by targeting the infinitesimal erstwhile crops are processing and the anticipation for a bountiful harvest is high.

“The Governor issues a nonstop and contiguous bid to each applicable information agencies to instantly motorboat a “manhunt for the perpetrators of this heinous transgression to guarantee they are brought to fa...