President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the leadership of the National Assembly led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Aso Rock Villa.


Mr. Saraki who spoke briefly at the end of the meeting said they were at the villa to brief the president on the decisions and resolutions of the Senate regarding the Benue crisis.


The Senate had during plenary on Tuesday given the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, 14 days to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of violence in Benue State. Over 70 people have been killed in Benue in 2018 in attacks by suspected herdsmen.


A Senate committee report said ‘faceless people’ were sponsoring and harbouring foreign mercenaries who have been perpetrating killings in Benue and other parts of Nigeria.


Mr. Saraki on Tuesday told reporters at the Villa that they successfully briefed the president, who received them well.


On his part, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters, Ita Enang, commended the Senate for its “robust debate on the crisis devoid of sentiments.”


The Senate’s interim report by the ad-hoc committee on the review of the current security infrastructure in Nigeria noted that the situation in Benue is a manifestation of the larger security crisis in Nigeria.


The chairman of the committee, Ahmed Lawan, who led the committee on a visit to Benue State presented the report on Tuesday.


“It is very clear from our interaction that some faceless people are sponsoring and harbouring the well trained foreign mercenary elements and using them to unleash violence and criminality in Nigeria‘s rural space,” Mr. Lawan said.

Kingwizzy16:
Buhari is a terrorist

BeeBeeOoh:


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madridguy:
We are no longer interested with the fruitless and baseless meetings. All we want is to bring out the bastards terrorists and let us burn them alive, shikena.

TheHistorian:
The Perpetrators must be brought to book.

No hiding place for criminals!!!

#GodBlessPMB.

ogbeniolola:
Ortom is a very smart politician!...and i'm surprised he's selling a dummy to benue people and they seem to have fallen for it! Okay, benue is the food basket of the nation, what has the ortom govt done to contribute to the lot of the farmers in benue? I mean we have seen what Audu ogbeh has been able to do with yam farmers from Abuja; Nigeria is now a net exporter of yams courtesy of collaboration between Federal Ministry of Agric and benue yam farmers. Ortom is obviously threatened by this fact because he has done very little to help the farmers' fortunes in the three years he has been in govt. All he could offer the farmers is "I will help you prevent herdsmen from your farmlands"!

Even with the massive farmlands in Benue, the question is how much IGR has Ortom eked out from farming business for the govt? The answer is virtually nothing; because we know benue govt under ortom is owing teachers, workers and there's no evidence of investment in healthcare, school or road infrastructure in the last three years; it's okada and keke napep everywhere even in markurdi o (the state capital).

Ortom is already looking at 2019, and he 's playing on the sensibilities of benue farmers by creating friction with farmers and herdsmen. He is not just interested in any option that could potentially resolve the herdsmen-farmers crises!...When cattle colony option is suggested, ortom would say "no o we don't have land for grazing o or i don't know the meaning of cattle colony o; we only have farmlands o! (as if he has done anything meaningful with the farm lands o)! Ranching is the only solution o!......okay, when he was told that Cattle colony is a "mega-ranch" more like a super-market for all the needs of the cattle, ortom changed vibes again o and said benue doesn't have lands for fulani herdsmen! For God's sake, we have idoma and tiv people in cattle business too! Of course, we understand his fears; it's all about 2019! The unfortunate benue killings has earned ortom huge public sympathy and he doesn't want any option that would possibly resolve the farmers-herdsmen conundrum and make him lose any strand of that sympathy before the next election. The benue killing has shielded ortom from the real issue that he's a failed governor!

Well, Ortom is deliberately making benue miss out in the lucrative cattle business for his own selfish gains! I can tell you for free that Lagos & southwest account for about 60% of the 6 to 7 million annual cattle consumption. Go to Agege abattoir and see an example of a functional cattle colony. Lagos generates close to N100 billion in taxes from cattle business; and Agege where the mega-ranch is located in Lagos is a high brow o going by Markurdi standard and it is predominantly inhabited by hausas and fulanis, yet we have never experienced any large-scale skirmish like the one seen in benue recently because Lagos has been blessed with responsible people in government over the years.

Whether ortom likes it or not, he will account for the killing in benue someday!....Don't trust politicians! They can do anything to have power!

BeeBeeOoh:


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/255810-benue-killings-buhari-meets-senate-leaders.htmlhtml

ogbeniolola:
Ortom is a very smart politician!...and i'm surprised he's selling a dummy to benue people and they seem to have fallen for it! Okay, benue is the food basket of the nation, what has the ortom govt done to contribute to the lot of the farmers in benue? I mean we have seen what Audu ogbeh has been able to do with yam farmers from Abuja; Nigeria is now a net exporter of yams courtesy of collaboration between Federal Ministry of Agric and benue yam farmers. Ortom is obviously threatened by this fact because he has done very little to help the farmers' fortunes in the three years he has been in govt. All he could offer the farmers is "I will help you prevent herdsmen from your farmlands"!

Even with the massive farmlands in Benue, the question is how much IGR has Ortom eked out from farming business for the govt? The answer is virtually nothing; because we know benue govt under ortom is owing teachers, workers and there's no evidence of investment in healthcare, school or road infrastructure in the last three years; it's okada and keke napep everywhere even in markurdi o (the state capital).

Ortom is already looking at 2019, and he 's playing on the sensibilities of benue farmers by creating friction with farmers and herdsmen. He is not just interested in any option that could potentially resolve the herdsmen-farmers crises!...When cattle colony option is suggested, ortom would say "no o we don't have land for grazing o or i don't know the meaning of cattle colony o; we only have farmlands o! (as if he has done anything meaningful with the farm lands o)! Ranching is the only solution o!......okay, when he was told that Cattle colony is a "mega-ranch" more like a super-market for all the needs of the cattle, ortom changed vibes again o and said benue doesn't have lands for fulani herdsmen! For God's sake, we have idoma and tiv people in cattle business too! Of course, we understand his fears; it's all about 2019! The unfortunate benue killings has earned ortom huge public sympathy and he doesn't want any option that would possibly resolve the farmers-herdsmen conundrum and make him lose any strand of that sympathy before the next election. The benue killing has shielded ortom from the real issue that he's a failed governor!

Well, Ortom is deliberately making benue miss out in the lucrative cattle business for his own selfish gains! I can tell you for free that Lagos & southwest account for about 60% of the 6 to 7 million annual cattle consumption. Go to Agege abattoir and see an example of a functional cattle colony. Lagos generates close to N100 billion in taxes from cattle business; and Agege where the mega-ranch is located in Lagos is a high brow o going by Markurdi standard and it is predominantly inhabited by hausas and fulanis, yet we have never experienced any large-scale skirmish like the one seen in benue recently because Lagos has been blessed with responsible people in government over the years.

Whether ortom likes it or not, he will account for the killing in benue someday!....Don't trust politicians! They can do anything to have power!