President Bola Tinubu urged the security chief on Wednesday to arrest the perpetrators of last Friday’s carnage in Benue State’s Yelewata town, located in the Guma Local Government Area.
“Christopher… We need to get our ears to the ground. Let’s get those criminals. Let’s get them out,” Tinubu told the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, during a town hall meeting with political leaders in Benue State.
Tinubu is in Benue, a hotbed of recent massacres by armed herders that have killed at least 100 lives.
In a conversation with Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia, he stated, “Your political enemies do not want you to succeed…” “Are you just realising that?”
He urged leaders from across the region to work together.
“We cannot do without another. I will want us to create a leadership committee now to meet in Abuja to fashion out a strategy for lasting peace. And I am ready to invest in that peace,” he said.
Tinubu previously paid a visit to survivors at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital after being attacked by armed herdsmen last Friday.
The attack, which resulted in the death of over 200 people, including children, has attracted widespread condemnation locally and internationally.
