Tag: Benue Killings

Benue Killings: “I’m disappointed Tinubu’s visit was political jamboree, not solemn” – SDP leader

Aminu Imam
SDP leader on Benue

Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its 2023 presidential candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has expressed disappointment with the way and manner President Bola Tinubu’s visit to Benue State, over the recent killings by Fulani militant groups, were trivialized and reduced to political show. Insisting that Nigerians must be serious with the way they handle important issues, Adebayo condemned the nature of President Tinubu’s Benue Town Hall meeting during the visit, describing what happened there as sickening. Writing in his official X handle, he said: “our entire governmental doctrine…

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Benue Killings: “I expect arrests, Tinubu directs Security Chiefs

Aminu Imam
Tinubu directs Security Chiefs

…As Tor Tiv decries ‘genocidal invasion’ President Bola Tinubu has directed Nigeria’s security chiefs to arrest those responsible for the recent massacre in Yelewata, Guma local government area of Benue State, as outrage grows over the escalating violence blamed on armed herders.  The President, during a high-level stakeholder meeting in Makurdi yesterday, also expressed frustration at the failure of law enforcement to act swiftly following the attack, which claimed over 100 lives. Tinubu, visibly angered, rebuked the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, for not apprehending the suspects nearly a…

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