President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday expressed surprise that no arrests were made following the June 20 bloodshed in the Yelewata community of Guma Local Government Area, Benue State.
Specifically, the President issued a direct order to security chiefs to apprehend the perpetrators of the massacre.
“Christopher… why is there no arrests? 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, Gen. Christopher Musa, during a town hall meeting with stakeholders in the state.
Tinubu had on Wednesday visited the beleaguered state after weeks of bloody attacks by armed herdsmen, which have claimed at least 100 lives.
The president, turning to Benue Gov. Hyacinth Alia, he said: “Your political enemies don’t want you to succeed…Are you just realising that?”
He called on leaders from across the political, religious or ethnic divide in the region to work together for a lasting peace.
“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.
Earlier, Tinubu had visited survivors of last Friday’s attack by armed herders at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital.
He was received on arrival in Makurdi by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. George Akume, a son of the soil, and Gov. Alia.
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