Benue News this morning, Thursday, July 7, 2022

Good morning, here are summary of Benue News this morning, Thursday July 7, 2022.

1. At least 29,743 aged persons of 60 years and above have been reportedly displaced as a result of the ceaseless armed herdsmen attacks on communities in Benue state.

The victims who are currently taking refuge in Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps and host communities scattered across the state are said to be living in worrisome conditions and in dire need of assistance.

2. Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Benue State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Austin Agada, has been labelled as a bigger threat to the party than the opposition People’s Democratic Party.

Chief Philip Agbese, the party’s House of Representatives flagbearer for the Ado/Ogbadibo/Okpokwu federal constituency, made this claim in a chat with newsmen on Wednesday.

3. Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, says the state is opposed to the national water resources bill reintroduced in the national assembly.

Reacting in a statement issued on Sunday by Terver Akase, his chief press secretary, Ortom said Benue is against the bill and will not be part of any discussion in support of it.

4. A 27 year-old graduate of the Benue State University, Ifeanyi Chuks Nwamannah has been arrested by the EFCC for being in possession of 41 ATM cards, bearing various names.
Nwamannah from Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, was arrested 29 June , at the Fruits Market, Wuse Zone II, Abuja, following an intelligence report.

5. The media office of Distinguished Senator Abba Moro, read with uttermost disappointment, a press interview by Hon. Philip Agbese, the purported APC candidate for Ogbadibo/Ado/Okpokwu Federal Constituency for the 2023 general election, in which he carelessly alluded that Senator Abba Moro is romancing with the Benue State APC Chairman, Comr. Austin Agada, with the main purpose of ‘…destroying candidates who emerged from legitimate primaries of the APC’.