Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has said that Nigeria’s military requires more resources to address the killings in the north central part of the country.
He said this amid the growing concerns over the spate of insecurity in the country.
Speaking on ‘Politics Today', a programme on Channels Television on Thursday, the governor noted that the military needs more support in the form of technology and communication, among others, to effectively deal with the situation.
DAILY POST reports that the north central states of Benue and Plateau have come under a wave of attacks that left scores dead, homes destroyed and several residents displaced.
On Monday, Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, confirmed that the death toll from the attacks on the Ukum and Logo local government areas by bandits had risen to 72.
He also urged the Federal Government to urgently step up security surveillance in Benue.
Reacting, however, Governor Sule said, “The lengthy discussion we had with the general yesterday has shown that we must introduce more resources in the form of technology, in the form of people, and then the biggest of them all, in the form of communication, to support the military.
“You know, so we need to be able to assist the military with more communication, with more information, with, so that’s the only way that they will be able to achieve this. And I think that’s what we decided we are going back to do.”;
The Nasarawa governor also reiterated the position of the Benue governor that the attackers are not Nigerians, adding that it was not that difficult to identify the criminals because they speak a different kind of Fulfulde.
“Well, it’s not that difficult to identify them because they speak a different kind of Fulfulde. They look Fulani; they don’t speak Hausa, and we have a lot of videos of them,”; Sule said.
He added that it was difficult to monitor Nigeria’s borders with neighbouring countries.
