Tag: Unongo
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Killings: Benue leaders threaten to cut alliance with North
Apparently frustrated by the incessant killings and attacks on Benue communities, leaders of the state have mandated the state government to cut socio-political alignment with the North, if the killings continued. Pained that it took northern governors three weeks to visit the state after the killing of 73 people by herdsmen and even up till…
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Benue massacre: We’ll raise an army if you cant protect us, Unongo tells Buhari
A leader of the Tiv nation and the chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, Wantaregh Unongo, said if President Muhammadu Buhari failed in his responsibility of protecting lives and property of Benue citizens, the people would train their own army in the state for self defence. Unongo said this during the mass burial of the…