"IN MY STATE BENUE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY RELIGIOUS, ANY ETHNIC, ANY RACIAL, ANY NATIONAL OR STATE GENOCIDE." - BENUE STATE GOVERNOR, REV FR. HYACINTH ALIA DECLARES THERE'S NO CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA | #RWGBLOG

“In my state of Benue, we don’t have any religious, any ethnic, any racial, any national or state genoc!de. We don’t have that..

“I’m speaking to you as a reverend father in the church. I’m speaking to you as a governor of a state. If there were any, particularly in my state or any part of Nigeria, I would have been the very number one person to make a noise.”

– Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia on Wednesday dismissed claims that religious genoc!de is taking place in the state.

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