{"id":178228,"date":"2025-09-10T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/demolition-charms-sacrifices-buried-in-wurukum-roundabout"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:20:42","slug":"demolition-charms-sacrifices-buried-in-wurukum-roundabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/demolition-charms-sacrifices-buried-in-wurukum-roundabout","title":{"rendered":"Demolition Charms Sacrifices Buried in Wurukum Roundabout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Atu Terver, Principal Special Assistant, PSA to Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia on Youth and Media Mobilization, has alleged that some diabolical items were buried in the popular Wurukum roundabout, Makurdi, the state capital.<\/p>\n

The roundabout was recently demolished to pave the way for the construction of a giant flyover by the Federal Government following Alia\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n

The demolition had however raised some dust as critics of the state government tagged the development insignificant and unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Justifying the demolition, Atu in a post on his official Facebook page on Wednesday said \u201cthe best thing that happened to Benue state is the demolition of that Wurukum roundabout for a flyover as governor Alia pleaded for\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to him, there are a lot of spiritual cleansing being carried out in the state by the governor, claiming that neutralizing the alleged diabolic deposits have given \u201croom for the massive development\u201d in the state.<\/p>\n

He wrote, \u201cSome things are more spiritual than physical and it takes more than the physical eyes of a highly spiritual person like Fr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia to see them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governor of Benue state is a powerful priest that is highly spiritual. Over the years there has been a lot of charms, sacrifices and different underdevelopment\/concrols are alleged to be buried there.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeutralizing them gave room for the massive development you are seeing but uprooting it as they did will skyrocket what will happen in the remaining 6 years. Have you ever wondered why all of a sudden all those accidents stop happening there?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe healing mass slogan wasn\u2019t just a mere slogan as some of you assumed. We thought it\u2019s the orientation that is making us stand up to date disagree but neutralizing and uprooting the sacrifices and charms is equally working wonders.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of development has happened within just these two years of spiritual neutralization and many more will happen in his remaining 6 years especially after uprooting the charm \u201callegedly\u201d.<\/p>\n

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