Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has alleged that politicians in Abuja and the National Assembly are behind the killings in the state. He recently shared that these politicians are currently feeding those responsible for the crisis in Benue.
Speaking during Friday’s Politics Today program on Channels Television, Hyacinth described the situation as unsettling, stating that the erring politicians are only interested in fighting for their position.
Declaring that it was his right to protect and serve the interests of his people, Alia disclosed that he would not tolerate such unacceptable behaviour while he is Governor.
“It is very, very unsettling because top politicians who are very functional and are in the National Assembly and are in Abuja, are the architects and arrowheads of not just instigating, but harbouring and keeping these people and feeding them in the bushes, and taking care of all their needs and buying all the other gadgets for them.
This is extremely unacceptable. If they do not love the lives of the people and they’re only fighting for their own position, I think I am serving the interest of the common masses and it is a concern to me, and it is my right to protect it,” he said.
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Despite not mentioning the names of any politicians who could be involved, Hyacinth noted that he has set up a judicial panel to investigate the reasons behind the attacks, adding that the findings indicted several big names.
The Benue State Governor concluded by vowing to take up the matter as soon as he receives the full report.
“We set up a judicial panel to sort out for us why we kept having attacks from within and from without, and we have received an interim report. Between Tuesday and Wednesday next week, I am going to get a full report from the panel.
So once we receive this report that is coming, we are going to take it up and take it up very seriously. There are quite a lot of big names that are mentioned here, so this is where we are.
We are under siege. The way these attacks come and the intel we receive, it is a directed, calibrated plan and then executed. Daily, we are receiving that intel. Of late, each of the intel we receive, 60 to 65 per cent of it is quite accurate.
And then when you realise what is going on, it is beyond just conflict, it is beyond just an ethnic fight between herders and farmers in our state, it is directed, it is planned and then it is executed, it is some terrorism,” he added.
