Nasarawa State Governor, Abdulahi Sule, met with President Muhammadu Buhari over the worsened security challenges encountered, saying the state no longer safe as Boko Haram members have returned and settled at Nasarawa-Benue boarder.

Governor Sule disclosed this to pressmen after a closed door meeting he had with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said, “I have come to see Mr President to brief him about some of the activities happening in my state, first in the area of security that we continue to have challenges with a team of Boko Haram who had settled at the border with the FCT.

“We thank the security forces that they have been able to dislodge them.

“But now, they have gone back and gathered at our border with Benue and they are causing a lot of havoc.

“Therefore, it was an opportunity as Mr President wanted to know and I briefed him. I strongly believe that just like decision was taken last time to take care of this issue, another decision will be taken.”

The Governor further said, “When we took the hostages, actually, we had to disperse them. A lot of them are families of different people in the country that were kidnapped.

“In most cases, when they kidnap women, they marry them off. We had a lot of kidnapped women that were married off. We released them back to their various states and families.

“We got people from about 17 states. A few of them were from Niger Republic. We handed over those from Niger Republic to the Department of State Services. We handed over those from states to their various governments through DSS offices in their domain.”

The governor said he also seized the opportunity of the meeting to thank the President for acting on the request of the state for more assistance on roads.

He added that the steps his administration is taking to combat COVID-19 in the state were being discussed with the President and he also sought additional supports that will help the state tackle COVID-19.

“The second wave of the pandemic is really taking lives and we are worried about it. But we are doing the best we can to see if we can contain it by taking several steps that we relaxed in the past,” he said.