Benue: Governor says state under siege, orders herdsmen out
— 17th May 2016
Apparently miffed by the incessant attacks on farmers in Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the state governor, Samuel Ortom, yesterday raised the alarm that the state is under siege.

The governor, who was reacting to the weekend’s attacks on Agwabi village in Binev Council Ward in Buruku Local Government Area of the state, called on the herdsmen to vacate the state immediately before the people resort to self-defence as they have been pushed to the wall.

Ortom, who lamented the attacks, noted that the herdsmen have virtually taken over the entire land in the state, stressing that enough is enough for the rampant killings of his people.

“This is an unfortunate situation that has been happening to us in Benue State. I have been crying all over the place and making appeals because we are under siege by the herdsmen, you push them away from one end, they will go to another end of the state,” the governor lamented.

According to him, it is a bad situation now to see how every day our people are being killed, raped by these mercenaries, who do not have respect for rule of law and for security personnel.

Ortom said: “These are wicked mercenaries under the guise of herdsmen attacking us and taken over our farmlands. I have said it several times that we do not have land for grazing in the state, let them move out of the state. There is a limit to which I can appeal to my people to restrain themselves from reprisal attacks, if all of them are killed then I will be the next target.”

Alluding to allegation that the youths in the state are rustling Fulani cows, the governor denied the allegation saying, “it is the criminal elements among the herdsmen that always steal their cows,” arguing whether rustling of cows is commensurate with the human lives they take.



http://sunnewsonline.com/benue-governor-says-state-under-siege-orders-herdsmen-o

This is terrible!

Every herdsman should graze in the home town

Noo! Gentle man keep on waiting to see if herdsmen will not have Marcy on your people, slow people can irritate man shaa. What a hale is going on in nija?

Oh he is just waking up. I thought he would keep his fat mouth shut like before.
But trust the man to goof again. Saying that after they have killed all Benue indigenes he will be next. Must have been a slip of tongue but he just spoke his mind. He cares about himself the most.

Why is he ordering them out? Was he not part of the 19northern governors who met and warned the south east when they ordered the fulani herdsmen out of their state?
Instead of him then to join and cry foul,he prefered to play the ethnic card to the detriment of his people's lives.
This is indeed one governor who has really turned to a major disappointment since becoming governor

Fair assessment.
Where will the farmer dispose the cow?
Sheik Gunmi alluded to the criminality of neglected fulanis who discovered kidnapping and armed robbery as a less risky option to rustling.
Only someone who herds cow can rustle cow.

Nice One Samuel Ortom

Ortom is a best governor ever. He is working hard so that there is no more people in Benue. After he finished he will get big money from his masters.

westafrican1:
Ortom is a best governor ever. He is working hard so that there is no more people in Benue. After he finished he will get big money from his masters.

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