The Acting Governor of Benue State, Engr. Benson Abounu, has proclaimed that the state is at present under attack by guerillas.
Engr Abounu, who talked yesterday after a crisis security meeting at his office, said Benue was right now under assault from all corners as guerillas had attacked the state, picking their objectives voluntarily and spilling blood all over the place.
The gathering took after Tuesday early morning assault by highwaymen, suspected to be herders on Ayar Mbalom, Gwer West nearby government region and the killing of 19 people, including two Catholic ministers, who were directing the morning mass at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Gwer East.
The Acting Governor, who depicted the day as a dim one for Benue state and its kin, stated, "The assault was a figured one; very much arranged and top notch by the marauders who initially assaulted the congregation, killed the clerics, a catechist and a few parishioners, at that point went to a setting of an entombment function and killed a portion of the grievers."
He said the assault on the congregation was another measurement to the ranchers/herders emergency and one that needs a decided and fitting reaction from the central government and the security organizations the path revolt in the North East is being handled, including that what they are encountering today is uprising.
The Acting Governor, who expressed that the outlaws, who numbered around 30 may in any case be prowling around the brambles guided the security operators to seek after them, flush them out of the region and get them captured with the goal that they can be researched to know the underlying drivers of the killings.
He unveiled that the Commissioner of Police, who has gone by the zone himself, has conveyed his men to the zone, an indistinguishable thing from the Commander of the 72 Special Forces brigade who has likewise dispatched officers there.
While engaging for quiet, he approached individuals of the state to be additional careful and to report any suspicious development to the security organizations.