BREAKING: Benue govt repatriates 58 suspected trafficked persons, insists COVID-19 lockdown still in place
Deputy Governor and Chairman of the Benue COVID-19 Action Committee, Engr. Benson Abounu, led a task force to repatriate the youths from the state in the early hours of Thursday.
The Deputy Governor revealed that the Committee provided the means of transportation, as well as security and documentation to facilitate safe passage on the highways for the affected young persons. He maintained that all measures necessary to keep the state free of Coronavirus would be implemented with due diligence, stressing that all destitute persons from other states found in Benue State would be returned to their homes.
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