{"id":79044,"date":"2025-11-20T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79044"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:20:03","slug":"benue-governor-denies-genocide-claims-warns-against-misrepresentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/20\/benue-governor-denies-genocide-claims-warns-against-misrepresentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue Governor Denies Genocide Claims, Warns Against Misrepresentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has dismissed claims that genocide is occurring in the state, urging the public not to misinterpret ongoing security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a public function on Wednesday, Alia said Benue is not witnessing any form of religious, ethnic, racial, or state-targeted extermination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we have insecurity in the state? Yes, we do, but it is not a genocide,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, a Catholic priest, said his commitment to truth and moral responsibility guides his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a Reverend Father\u2026 working with the fear of God and the compassion of Christianity and humanity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has dismissed claims that genocide is occurring in the state, urging the public not to misinterpret ongoing security challenges. Speaking at a public function on Wednesday, Alia said Benue is not witnessing any form of religious, ethnic, racial, or state-targeted extermination. \u201cDo we have insecurity in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79044","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=79044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79047,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79044\/revisions\/79047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}