Gov Alia orders deployment of security personnel to troubled Benue communities

Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr Hyacinth Alia, has directed information agencies to deploy further unit to Saii and surrounding communities successful Katsina Ala Local Government Area of the authorities to forestall further incursions by terrorists and equipped herdsmen.

He besides directed the agencies to motorboat a manhunt for the perpetrators of the onslaught connected Saii community, wherever guiltless radical were killed and respective others injured.

Governor Alia said those who carried retired the heinous transgression indispensable beryllium arrested and brought to justice. He urged information agencies to guarantee the information of farmers arsenic they thin to their crops and warrant that cultivation activities are not further disrupted.

He called connected residents to stay calm and urged vigilantes to study immoderate suspicious movements oregon activities to the nearest information post.

Governor Alia said his medication would guarantee that bid is afloat restored to each parts of the community, describing the onslaught arsenic a senseless battle connected guiltless citizens.

He condemned the incident, describing it arsenic a cowardly and unacceptable enactment of violence, peculiarly astatine a clip erstwhile farmers had returned to their ancestral lands to cultivate their farms.

Governor Alia extended his deepest condolences to the families who mislaid their loved ones successful the tragic incident, saying helium shared successful their grief and successful the symptom of those presently receiving med...