Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has rejected the allegation that alleged herdsmen who attack Benue State always come in and escape from the state.
Nasarawa borders Benue and it has been suggested in some quarters that the criminals who carried out the recent attack in Yelwata community in Benue which claimed several lives, came in and left from the neighbouring Nasarawa.
However, Governor Sule refuted the claims that Nasarawa harbours criminals, saying that the state has less activities related to cattle rearing.
“The problem comes with the terminology of harbouring and things like that because there is nothing like that,” Sule said on the programme.
“Nasarawa don’t even have enough Fulanis that we can say that (it is habouring anybody).
“Nasarawa is not known, that is why anything that has to do with dairies, with cattle, we don’t do that because Nasarawa has enough problems of its own. So, why would Nasarawa be interested in habouring anybody? We have enough trouble to manage.”