{"id":68292,"date":"2025-06-17T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68292"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:47:55","slug":"un-condemns-benue-killings-urges-tinubu-led-govt-to-apprehend-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/17\/un-condemns-benue-killings-urges-tinubu-led-govt-to-apprehend-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Condemns Benue Killings, Urges Tinubu-Led Govt to Apprehend Perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has condemned the ongoing killings in Benue State and called on the Nigerian government, led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to take decisive action in apprehending those responsible for the violence.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes amid growing national and international outrage over the repeated massacres and the government\u2019s apparent inability to halt the bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the UN Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, confirmed that the United Nations is closely monitoring the situation in Benue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re monitoring the situation,\u201d Haq stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Tinubu is expected to visit Benue State as part of efforts to engage with local communities and stakeholders in search of lasting solutions to the hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the visit, he has dispatched key officials, including the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Inspector General of Police, heads of intelligence agencies, the National Security Adviser, and the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Defence.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement, the President will hold a town hall meeting with community leaders, security operatives, and youth groups during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu was initially scheduled to visit Kaduna State on Wednesday to commission state projects, but that visit has been postponed. He is now expected to visit Benue on Thursday, June 19, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The United Nations has condemned the ongoing killings in Benue State and called on the Nigerian government, led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to take decisive action in apprehending those responsible for the violence. This development comes amid growing national and international outrage over the repeated massacres and the government\u2019s apparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68292","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68295,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68292\/revisions\/68295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}