The students of College Of Health Sciences, Benue State University Makurdi numbering over 150, marched on Wednesday 25th October to the State Government house to present grievances to the state governor over welfare issues and were repelled by thugs purportedly sent by government officials.
The Benue state university medical student association (BESUMSA), the student organization of the institution headed by the President, Imenger Charles Terver organized a peaceful visit to the State Governor to seek solutions to issues bordering on Student welfares and Academic mismanagement in the early hours of Wednesday, however on getting to the government house, they were stopped at the gate by the state security outfit who denied them entrance into the government house.
After hours of insisting to get audience with the governor, the security agents attempted to forcefully disperse the students, however, as this failed to dent the resilience of the agrieved students, the security agents withdrew and thugs emerging from the government house attacked the students, injuring a good number of the very peaceful medical students.
Below are links of video evidences:
https://x.com/A_shangevfa/status/1717191292373860363?s=20

This is pathetic to say the least

Just recently the government promised to increase their allowances so why the protest again?

The State generally is on Standstill because of the 'freezing' of all the accounts belonging to the state government since the inception of the Alia administration. This is because of the cheques and other orders Ortom gave to banks to transfer and pay some amount from the state government accounts as soon as money drops in those accounts.

The state is currently on standstill. Nothing is moving yet. They should exercise patience.