{"id":67474,"date":"2025-06-07T00:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67474"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:48:19","slug":"abuja-politicians-funding-violence-says-alia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/07\/abuja-politicians-funding-violence-says-alia\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Politicians Funding Violence, Says Alia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has accused some Abuja-based politicians of sponsoring deadly attacks in the state, alleging that they provide support and shelter for armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today, Alia said a judicial panel set up by his administration has submitted an interim report indicting several top politicians, including some members of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the full report is expected next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese politicians are harbouring the attackers, paying their bills, and equipping them. It\u2019s extremely unacceptable,\u201d Alia said.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted the violence has gone beyond farmer-herder clashes and described it as politically motivated. Alia vowed to act on the final report to protect residents and uphold peace in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has accused some Abuja-based politicians of sponsoring deadly attacks in the state, alleging that they provide support and shelter for armed groups. Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today, Alia said a judicial panel set up by his administration has submitted an interim report indicting several top politicians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67476,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67474\/revisions\/67476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}