Angry youths, yesterday set ablaze a section of the Ter Makurdi, Chief Sule Abenga’s palace over an alleged involvement of one of his sons in cult activities in Kanshio, a suburb of Makurdi in Benue State.
It was learnt that the protesting youths, who blocked the Makurdi-Otukpo highway for more than three hours, causing traffic jam, also torched six vehicles belonging to the monarch.
Witnesses said there was tension in the area between 9am and 11am, such that vehicles quickly returned to Makurdi town following the exchange of gunfire between some security personnel and a yet-to-be identified group
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