Gov Alia Is The Chief Security Officer Of Benue State And Knew Exactly What He Said About Killings In Benue

By Terfa Naswem 

Security Reporter/Intelligence Analyst 

The Executive Governor of Benue State, Rev. Fr. Dr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia on Friday, 6th June, 2025 in an exclusive interview on Channels Television accused some politicians in Abuja for being responsible for some of the killings going on in the state.

He said some top politicians in the National Assembly, and Abuja are harbouring and feeding terrorists in the bush to execute the daily killings in the state. They also buy weapons for the bandits to carry out the attacks for their selfish interests.

Neophytes in politics and those who have held onto their obdurate hypocrisy criticized the governor for saying such on Channels TV. What these groups of people fail to understand is that Gov. Alia is the Chief Security Officer of Benue State. He receives intelligence reports from Department of State Services (DSS), Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), Force Intelligence Department (FID) of the Nigeria police and other intelligence agencies on activities of terrorists and criminals including their sponsors and other related information concerning the state.

These agencies gather information through various means like human intelligence (HUMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

Actionable intelligence reports and assessments are produced from intelligence analysis and are shared with Gov. Alia, relevant stakeholders including military commanders, policymakers, and other intelligence agencies.

The intelligence reports have threat assessment which identifies and evaluates potential threats to Benue State and its allies.

The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu receives even broader intelligence reports which covers the entire Nigeria and he knows exactly what is going on in Benue State. That's why when state of emergency mongers were consistently calling on Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in Benue, he gave deaf ears to their calls because he knows that the attacks in Benue are coming from multidimensional fronts with various interests, one which is for state of emergency to be declared to dislodge Gov. Alia for their nefarious and diabolical schemes.

We are all patiently waiting to see how events unfold in the coming weeks regarding exposing some of those behind the killings and mayhem in Benue State.