20/11/2025
PRESS RELEASE / PUBLIC STATEMENT
HOW CAN GOVERNOR ALIA CLAIM THERE IS NO GENOCIDE IN BENUE?
A STATEMENT FROM CHIEF MALCOLM OMIRHOBO
It is shocking, disappointing and utterly irresponsible for Governor Hyacinth Alia to stand before the world and claim that “there is no ethnic or racial genocide in Benue State.”
Such a statement is not only false , it is an insult to the thousands of innocent men, women and children massacred across Benue over the years.
Benue has witnessed some of the worst mass killings in Nigeria’s modern history entire villages wiped out, communities displaced, farmlands destroyed, and families living in perpetual fear. These atrocities did not happen in the governor’s imagination; they happened on Benue soil, to Benue people.
For a leader who swore an oath to protect his citizens to now stand before the international community and deny their suffering shows one thing: Governor Alia is out of touch with reality, or deliberately choosing political convenience over truth and justice.
Nigeria does not need leaders who sanitize atrocities to please foreign partners.
Nigeria needs leaders who will stand with their people, acknowledge the truth, demand accountability, and confront the terror that has destroyed countless lives.
To claim there is “no genocide” in Benue is not just a lie , it is a betrayal of the victims, a betrayal of history, and a betrayal of the Nigerian people.
Governor Alia should retract this reckless statement and begin to speak the truth. Silence and denial only embolden the killers.
Signed: by
Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo
Human Rights Advocate & Constitutional Lawyer
Lagos, Nigeria
