President Bola Tinubu has highlighted the need for citizens to value human lives.
Speaking at the Stakeholders’ Town Hall meeting during his visit to Makurdi, Benue State capital, the president said people seem not to value human lives anymore.
The president visited Benue State on Wednesday, June 18, to get a first-hand assessment of the impact of the recent armed herdsmen attack on residents of the Yelewata community.
Following his arrival in Makurdi, the president visited the hospital where survivors of the attack were receiving medical attention.
He further headed to the Banquet Hall of the Benue State Government House for the Stakeholders’ Town Hall meeting.
At the meeting, he said, “The value of human life is greater than that of a cow and it is only when you open the door to conflict that political enemy will come in.”
Further addressing the governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia on the need to ensure that he tightens his grip on affairs of the state, the president said a porous environment makes room for enemies.
“Political enemies, they don’t want you to succeed. Are you just realising that, governor?
“No matter what I do, they will still abuse me, I read paper every time and listen to television any time I have time; watching people who are abusing me and what type of abuse.
“I learnt lessons from some of the critical ones too because I can’t see it all. And it is from the mouth of my critics that I know what is there and I am the president, I will go and do it,” President Tinubu stated.
The article was originally published on Politics Nigeria.
