North Will Not Tolerate Any Extreme Group Again - Ortom

Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom today said that the North will no longer condone any extremist group which threatens the peace and unity of the region.

The Governor who made this declaration today while addressing a group of protesters led by a civil rights organisation, Conference of Minority Tribes at the Benue Peoples House also assured the people of government’s continued protection from external attacks.

Ortom also assured the protesters that the government was looking into the issue of further attacks by herdsmen even as he informed of increased security presence in the affected areas.

Meanwhile the leader of the group, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi in his speech accused the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Shi'ite Islamic sect of instigating the current wave of killings by Fulani herdsmen.

Okpokwu called on the presidency to look into the matter in the same manner the Shiite uprising in the north was handled, to halt all attempts to spread extremism to other parts of the country.

He further lamented the scale of destruction caused by the crisis, describing it as an ethnic cleansing exercise labelled Fulani-Agatu crisis to desensitize the national consciousness.

“the on-going ethnic cleansing has been mischievously labelled Fulani-Agatu crisis under circumstances that are at best efforts to desensitize the national consciousness to the enormity of the scale on which Benue state people are being wiped-out on a daily basis.” Okpokwu said.

Furthermore the group has also requested the Federal Government to provide compensation and relief to the victims of the invasion, while demanding the government to come out with a definite policy to curtail extremism.

“individuals fingered in the Shiite crisis and those threatening the state as clearly seen in the published videos must be arrested and prosecuted. Government must then come out with a definite policy to curtail any form of extremism.” He said.

Is he speaking for the north - the Arewas, the NEF, The MURIC, the Sheikhs, the Alfas, the Mallams, The Alhajis, so much so many to mention? When has Ortom been hired?
These are groups that do not see the invasion and killings from the same lens as does Orton or Benue people. While the Benue people are crying and weeping, it is a shout of joy for victory over their enemy in the camp of the north and yet Orton is spreading his mat to sleep with them.
Rather than looking inwards for solutions to the killings and invasion of Benue by the northern militias, he is thinking himself a 'bird'.

Hmmm! This Ortom of a man has failed to realise that he is on his own and at best in the same boat with the middle belt states that islamic extremists up north have sworn to decimate and overrun.

He is busy talking about not tolerating extremist groups in the North, a very massive region while his own home is being systematically destroyed. He had better be at home with the fact that the Middle Belt is seen as conquered territory unless they take up everything it takes to defend their territories from marauders.

The earlier he calls that area by its true name and labels his people by their real identities the better for them. That way they realise that they must stand for themselves because the Nigerian security agencies serve only at the pleasure of any government in power and in this dispensation, the government of Buhari is pleased to promote his fulani family and business and religion at the expense of Middle Belt farmers and Christians which make up the majority of his Benue State.

Ortm should go and sit down
what has they done so far against boko haram or fulani herdsmen

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"Desperate Attempts By Govt. To Link Imn/shia To Terror To justify ZariaMassacre"
"Tweets on the sponsored campaigns by the Nigerian Govt to link IMN & #Shia_Muslims to terrorism:

Some sponsored protesters went to Benue State govt house claiming that IMN & #Shia_Muslims are behind the Fulani killings in #Agatu!

The Nigerian Govt that killed 1000+ defenseless & unarmed #Shia_Muslims in Zaria is behind these sponsored protests to link IMN to terrorism

There is no where in the world that #Shia_Muslims are terrorists. And #IMN has been peaceful for the past 37 years & will remain peaceful

The plot by the Nigerian Govt to link the peaceful #IMN to terrorism will fail. War criminals labeling their victims as “terrorists”."
https://www.nairaland.com/2990120/desperate-attempts-govt-link-imn


"Re:court Asked To Order The Arrest Of El-zakzaky's Wife"
"It is important to note that the Nigerian government has so far used three (3) fronts in its campaign against the Islamic Movement of Nigeria ( #IMN ) and #Iran since the return of the Nigerian President Buhari from his foreign trips to #Saudi_Arabia and #Qatar. The first was by a faceless group led by a "Christian cleric" to the Iranian Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria. The second was in Lagos by another faceless group that tried to equate the peaceful IMN with the most deadliest terrorist group in the whole world (#BokoHaram). And this law suit is the third front.

It is also important to note that all the leaders of this sponsored groups are Nigerian Christians, that was not by accident but by design to give their campaign which is sectarian in nature a "national outlook". The IMN is the only Islamic organization in Nigeria that invites Christians to its programs and activities, and this move to make Nigerians believe that Nigerian Christians are in the forefront of opposition and hostility towards IMN will definitely fail as IMN considered all Christians as our brothers and sisters in humanity."

https://www.nairaland.com/2990081/re-court-asked-order-arrest

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