Benue Governor, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, has said that the state needs help amid the killings by bandits, not a state of emergency declaration.
Alia, who was featured as a guest on Arise Television’s ‘The Morning Show’ on Wednesday, clarified that while the insecurity in Benue was not too much for him to handle, the federal government’s intervention was also needed to tackle the crisis.
While expressing his administration’s ability to halt the killings, Alia added that he needs additional support to drive killer herders out of the state.
“What we need is emergency help for now. We need absolute support. The federal government is supported. They sent two armoured tanks that came in.
“Our situation had changed. We had a better narrative, but what we need to do is to get our people back home, to drive out the invaders, the armed invaders who have brought in people who do not even speak the Nigerian languages we speak.
“Let them move back to wherever they came from and allow us farmers to go back to our ancestral land. Calling for any emergency does not occur here,” Alia said.