Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and his counterpart in Benue, Gabriel Suswan, on Thursday briefed the Presidency on the precarious security situation in their states.
While Al-Makura briefed Vice-President Namadi Sambo on the killing of over 20 policemen by members of a cult group in Alakyo Village, about 10 kilometres from Lafia, the state capital, on Wednesday, Suswan filed a report on the clashes between Fulani cattle rearers and farmers with a casualty figure which he described as “high and including women and children.”
President Goodluck Jonathan is currently in South Africa where he is participating in the World Economic Forum on Africa holding in Cape Town.
Shortly after a closed-door meeting with the Vice-President, Al-Makura told State House correspondents that his mission in Abuja was to report the activities of the Ombatse Militia to the Federal Government.
