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“We want to state categorically that if the Benue State Government purchased an aircraft before Chief Samuel Ortom became Governor in 2015, such a transaction was not part of the handover notes that he received from his predecessor, and no aircraft was handed to the State Government under Ortom.
Ortom said,“We read a statement today by the Chief Press Secretary to the Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia who alleged among other things that “…he understands the state has an airplane but its whereabouts is still been(sic) looked into”.
He further urged Governor Alia to show evidence of the state owing aircraft to enable the people of the state to know the truth.
According to Ortom, Alia had claimed during a recent Zoom meeting with the Benue diaspora community that the state owns an aircraft but does not know its whereabouts..
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