29/01/2025
NEWS FLASH.
The Senior Special Assistant (SSA), to the executive governor of Benue State, His Excellency, Very. Rev. Fr. Dr Hyacinth Iormem Alia, on Youth Organization and Illegal Levies, Hon. Gbenda Terver, and the Taskforce team on Illegal Levies, Benue State, today, 28th January, 2025, has swiftly taken a holistic approach towards the full implementation of the public order law prohibiting Marching Ground, Yahoo Yahoo, Illegal check points on our high ways and streets, illegal market receipts, illegal mining and illegal deforestation and other related forms of criminality and Illegalities in Benue State, with emphasis on the metropolitan City of Makurdi, the beautiful capital city of Benue State.
The team which was led by the SSA, Hon. Gbenda Terver, in the early hours of today, 28th January, 2025, visited many structural development sites within Makurdi metropolis and its environs, for on the spot assessment of ongoing developmental projects, in Makurdi, the Benue State capital city.
At the popular Gaadi settlement along Makurdi - Gboko road, the team met and interacted with the Secretary, Benue State ALGON and Chairman, Ukum Local Government Council, Hon. Johnathan Modi who expresses satisfaction with the action taken by the Taskforce team, headed by Hon. Gbenda, for the success recorded so far, he how ever, also counted ordeals faced by developers as some few youths still indulge in perpetrating Illegalities in development sites, despite the government decision to eliminate Marching Ground and other related Illegalities in Benue State.
Hon. Moji commended the Taskforce team for the great job they are doing, he promised for and on behalf of the Benue State ALGON, unalloyed support to the office of Youth Organization and Illegal Levies to succeed in their statutory responsibility of checkmating activities and excesses of multiple taxations in Benue State.