Hyacinth Alia, the governor of Benue State, blamed infiltrators from neighboring areas and across international boundaries for the ongoing violence in some areas of the state, attributing it to the territory’s geographic vulnerability.
The governor claimed that the state is a prime target for roving attackers because of its closeness to Cameroon, Nasarawa, and Taraba in an interview with Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday.
He claimed that individuals who often assault the state enter from the frontiers, saying, “We share borders with Cameroon, with Taraba, and with Nasarawa.”
“They were not necessarily Nigerians speaking the Hausa we know or the Fulanis,” the governor of Benue State added.
“When to come to the axis of Nasarawa. This is where we have a lot of challenges. There are a number of happenings within Nasarawa State and there were routes where these people come in through any time they are shifted out of Benue. What we see now if anyone describes it as a reprisal, we wouldn’t say no to that.”
Alia said he spoke with his Nasarawa counterpart, Abdullahi Sule, and he said he got some intelligence that “the terrorists were coming into his state through Benue.”They probably came and made a touchdown in Yelewata in Benue and were going back because he said one person was macheted in Nasarawa State,” he added when I informed him that the chaos had already been wreaked at Yelewata in Benue.
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