Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, said that terrorists and bandits were behind the killings in the state.
He stated that the recent attacks that claimed several lives were beyond the herders and farmers clashes being propagated.
Governor Alia spoke extensively on the killings in the state in the last few weeks when he featured on a Channels Television programme: “Politics Today,” on Friday.
He said: “We are under siege.
“The way these attacks come and the intel we receive, it is a directed calibrated plan and then executed.
“On a daily basis we are receiving those intel.
“Of late, each of those intel we receive, 60 to 65 percent 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.
“For some reasons, none of them is ever caught.
“They come in the thick of the night, hit, run, and nobody sees a trace.
“So, it is some terrorism that is eating us up.”
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