{"id":88169,"date":"2026-11-07T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88169"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:45:35","slug":"nigerian-government-lacks-political-will-to-end-attacks-in-benue-state-catholic-bishop-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nigerian-government-lacks-political-will-to-end-attacks-in-benue-state-catholic-bishop-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Government Lacks Political Will To End Attacks In Benue State, Catholic Bishop Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ewtn\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_3840,h_2160,g_auto\/f_auto\/q_80\/v1\/ewtn-news\/en\/aci-africa_nick_if20-south-africa-2026-11-05t112636_1793874513.jpg_cpebvt.webp?_a=BAVMn6E70\" alt=\"Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of Nigeria\u2019s Diocese of Makurdi. | Credit: ACI Africa\" width=\"336\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Bishop <a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic-hierarchy.org\/bishop\/banagbe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe<\/a> of Nigeria\u2019s <a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic-hierarchy.org\/diocese\/dmaku.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diocese of Makurdi<\/a> has faulted the government over persistent attacks in Benue state and other parts of the country, saying authorities have the capacity to end the violence but lack the political will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">In a Nov. 3 interview with ACI Africa, the sister service of EWTN News in Africa, Anagbe alleged that repeated warnings before the deadly attack on the Yelwata community went unheeded.\u00a0\u201cIf the government wants this problem to stop, it can stop. Nigeria is capable of handling this issue, but they are not willing to do so. It is not that they lack the capacity; they lack the willingness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of Nigeria\u2019s Diocese of Makurdi has faulted the government over persistent attacks in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88170,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88169\/revisions\/88170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}