Alia’s Birthday feast and the abandoned Benue IDPs

Alia’s Birthday feast and the abandoned Benue IDPs By Peter Awunah, PhD awunahpeter@gmail.com Last night, Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State assembled his friends and supporters at an elaborate and extravagant event and dinner estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions. The occasion was his 58th birthday. But while Governor Alia and his…