Benue passengers abducted by local militia – Presidency
The Presidency has described the kidnapping of passengers along the Makurdi–Otukpo highway in Benue State as an operation carried out by local criminal groups, insisting that recent evidence points to a growing pattern of violence driven from within affected communities rather than external armed ne...
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