Yelwata: Nothing has changed since Tinubu’s visit to Benue -Tiv Leader

Aleva made this statement on Wednesday, while responding to
questions in an interview on ‘Sunrise Daily’, a programme on Channels
Television.

Recall that Tinubu had visited Benue amid renewed killings
in the state that left scores dead, several injured, and many others displaced
in June.

However, a few months after Tinubu’s visit, Aleva bemoaned
that the Yelwata community remains in ruins despite Tinubu’s visit to the state
in response to the incident.

“I was there in Yelewata last week Saturday and I saw things
myself and I want to tell you that it is quite unfortunate. It is not about
playing to the gallery or just saying things and being political. As I speak,
nothing has changed.

“I told you here during my earlier interview that nothing
good is going to come out of the President’s visit to Benue State. All those
are just political, nothing is happening in Yelewata, I have video evidence, I
have interview from the locals, I was there live with my entourage,” he said.

Recall that during the President president’s visit to
Yelewata, he asked that service chiefs and the Inspector General of Police,
IGP, arrest those behind the dastardly attack.

After a few days of the order, the Inspector General of
Police, Kayode Egbetokun, announced the arrest of 26 persons suspected to be
masterminds of the killings in Yelwata.

However, Aleva dismissed the reported arrest of the attack
masterminds by the police, describing it as “a lie”.

“You know that is a lie. Because the president went there
and scolded the Inspector-General of Police and just less than 48 hours or
there about, they paraded some people.

“Where are the people? That incident actually happened I
think on the 13th and 14th of June, this is more than two months, where are the
people,” He queried.