The President General of Mzough U Tiv, MUT, worldwide, and Chairman of the three main socio-cultural organisations in the state, Iorbee Ihagh, expressed disgust over the continuous killing of innocent people in the state and across the country, stating that the country was drifting to disintegration.
He said the manner killing of innocent people in Benue and across the country continued showed that there was no government in place.
Ihagh stated, “The way things are going in the country today, show that we don’t have government in place, or how do you imagine that there is no day we don’t have record of 20, 30 or 40 people being killed across the country.
“It is high time we stopped all these things, if not Nigeria will break or there will be no election in 2023.”
Reacting to the killing in Benue State, the Middle Belt Forum called on the people of the state to heed the advice given by a former Minister of Defence, Gen Theophilus Danjuma (retd,), if they wanted to stop the killings in their domain.
The National Publicity Secretary of the Middle Belt Forum, Dr Isuwa Dogo made the call in an interview with one of our correspondents in Jos on Monday.
Recall that Danjuma had in March 2018, urged Nigerians to defend themselves against killers in the country.
The Middle Belt Spokesman who condemned the fresh killings in Benue communities pointed out that he believed that the attacks on the people had continued because the citizens had yet to act on Danjuma’s advice.