Killings: “I will visit Benue people on Wednesday” – Tinubu reveals
President Bola Tinubu says he will clear his schedule to pay a condolence visit to the people of Benue State on Wednesday.
“I will adjust my programme and go see Benue people on Wednesday,” Tinubu said on Monday when he commissioned the Greater Abuja Water Supply Network in the nation’s capital.
The President also sympathised with the people of the state and those who lost their loved ones in the attacks.
He urged the people of the state to manage their diversity, anger and frustration and live as one united people.
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Meanwhile, opposition arrowheads Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi have criticised the president for not visiting the people of the troubled North Central State despite the killing of scores of residents by vicious marauders.
Benue State has been under heavy attacks by suspected herdsmen for some time. The killings have lingered for years, with some linking it to inter-communal conflicts as well as the quest for land dominance between the autochthonous agrarian dwellers and nomadic cattle rearers.
However, the killings in the last few weeks have been without a break. At least over 200 residents were confirmed killed in a series of attacks by suspected herdsmen who wreaked havoc in different communities in the food-producing state.
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