Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Benue on Monday, security has been beefed up, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Armed security personnels were seen deployed to strategic areas in Makurdi while others were seen patrolling streets in armoured tanks and vehicles as part of measures to boost up security in the state.

NAN also reports that patrol officers with sniffer dogs were also sighted along busy streets and highways in the state capital while a military helicopter was sighted conducting aerial surveillance.

Similarly, siren-blaring police patrol vans conveying armed security personnel decked in bullet prove vestments were seen patrolling the streets.

Buhari is expected in Benue to condole with the people of the state over the deaths of local farmers killed by suspected herdsmen on January 1 in Guma and Logo Local Government Areas.

Scores of other villagers were also reported to have been killed at Okpokwu, Logo, and villages in Guma since the January 1 massacre.

Part of the president’s itinerary as released by the Benue Government included a courtesy call on the fifth Tor Tiv, Professor James Ayatse, at his Makurdi residence.

According to the release, the president will have an interactive session with selected Benue indigenes and visit the IDP camp via helicopter.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Fatayi Owoseni, and the command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, were yet to respond to phone calls put to them by NAN as they were said to be working to firm up the security arrangements.

However, a cross-section of Makurdi residents commended security agencies for the tight security measures put in place.

The resident hoped that the visit would tackle the mounting security and development challenges of the state.

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2019

The thing is that they will still come out in mass to welcome him once dem hear say de will be settled lik that of Jos....


Street light dt de rushed n fixed for Buhari's coming to plateau state hs been removed....pure eye service





#shithole

Zoogeria

Oga. No picture of d beefed up security in the street near their van holding different kind of rifle and watching up and down and around them with dia com.radio listening to those incomprehensible sounds about differents information from d other areas in town....




What am I even sayin sef

Make way for the cow rearer is come
To claim the carcasses of his kinsmen's spoils
Make way for the dauran pharo
Enthroned as the Benue's Hero

Clear the dumps, patch the holes
For the patron of the killers is aboard
Paint the streets, throw the flowers
For the Lord of the Zombies is near

vulture

No be only beefed up...na porked up!

When the chief herdsman is coming, why wont they "beef" up security?

OK

All these abracadabra is just for 2019....smh







#BackToDaura2019.... loading

Tension

where as all this security personnel been while herdsmen where slaughtering people like chickens

He's beefing up security for his own safety but will be going about telling everyone that the Nigerian state is the safest place to be... Hypocrite!!! God will punish all those that voted Buhari and that have refused to renounce him due to religious affiliation and sentimental reasons

If the security was as tight as this there wouldn't be killings in the state.

How i wish the helicopter he is gonna fly will crash that's gonna solve the problem the country is facing once and for all

smokedfish:
The thing is that they will still come out in mass to welcome him once dem hear say de will be settled lik that of Jos....


Street light dt de rushed n fixed for Buhari's coming to plateau state hs been removed....pure eye service





#shithole

There's hunger In the land

Hunger is used to control the masses

hope the people of Benue won't stone the president?

Politics!!!

What sort of news is this?

Our security men have been diverted to protect Mr President all in the name of what exactly and when he leaves the state and the people are left to secure themselves...OYO level...

This is not Democracy but Slavery...
The People needs to stand for their right and reject this form of leadership... Say No to suffering and smiling mentality

is so painful the benue people don't know their enemy buhari is benue number one enemy not d herms men bcus there is no herms men without buhari

smokedfish:
The thing is that they will still come out in mass to welcome him once dem hear say de will be settled lik that of Jos....


Street light dt de rushed n fixed for Buhari's coming to plateau state hs been removed....pure eye service





#shithole

Trust them now.. Zombies be waiting for their Cowhari like...

fSociety:
Zoogeria

Shut up and be patriotic

Is this an empathy visit or political campaign visit. Visiting Markurdi 3months after the nefarious killing of over 70people. Bad man, Bad President, Bad APShit, Bad Bubu.

Normal

Oluwambo147:
How i wish the helicopter he is gonna fly will crash that's gonna solve the problem the country is facing once and for all

You think if Buhari dies you will finally have food to eat this afternoon??

Nonsense......why not beef security to forestall the genocide? But a man that was supposed to serve us and our interest is more important than us all. Mshewwwww

CaptainFM1:
Is this an empathy visit or political campaign visit. Visiting Markurdi 3months after the nefarious killing of over 70people. Bad man, Bad President, Bad APShit, Bad Bubu.

Take it easy now... shu!!

Jagbagantis country.

CHAI! IT IS SOME HOW
EVEN PRESIDO DEY FEAR FULANI

No matter how tired I may be, seeing my president on TV gives me the strength to stand up and change the channel

economia:
CHAI! IT IS SOME HOW
EVEN PRESIDO DEY FEAR FULANI

bros they are not protecting him from fulani, they are protecting him from the families and friends his fulani boys and brothers killed.