By Bemgba Iortyom.
With economic hardship hitting the people of Benue State harder by the day, Gov. Samuel Ortom and his wife, Eunice, are reported to have collected an estimated N34 million for a trip to China.

Reliable sources in the Finance Ministry of the state revealed that the governor's wife collected N11 million while the governor collected N23 million for a trip to China for purposes which it is not clear how relevant they are to the people of the state.


Life has become harder for the people of Benue State since the coming to office of the Ortom government with increase in taxation, non-payment of workers salaries and a recent hike in tuition fees in the state owned tertiary institutions of learning, namely, Benue State University, Makurdi, Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture, Yandev, Colleges of Education, Katsina-Ala and Oju, Benue Polytechnic, Ugbokolo and College of Advanced and Professional Studies, Makurdi.
A rise in killings of farmers, including women and children, and destruction of whole villages and farms by Fulani herdsmen has also added to the misery of the people of this Middle-Belt state who voted Gov. Ortom and the All Progressives Congress (APC) into power, having been promised "change" as a better alternative to the rule of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

The litany of woes in the state also include the widely held impression that the Ortom government is reckless with public funds as evidenced in its collection of billions of naira of loans without any worthwhile developmental projects to show for it.

The government also received over N28 billion since November last year as bailout funds for payment of salary arrears to workers, but up to this moment there are conflicting claims, even from government, as to how much has been paid to workers.
Meanwhile, as Gov. Ortom prepares to jet out to China, his claims of success with his much-hyped amnesty progeamme are becoming increasingly questionable owing to a recent rise in violent crime with recorded incidents of armed robbery and killings in some parts of the state.



http://www.benuenews.com.ng/2016/04/ortom-wife-pocket-n34-million-for-trip.html

They probably went to china to repair the damages done to the reputation of benue state by jonathan. In other words, gej is to be blamed for this trip and gej is also to be blamed for them pocketing 34 million. Isn't that right zombies?

Una never chi sumtin.

which state gov is that?? not a Nigerian

And they will tell you that they don't have money to pay minimum wage.

If this. Is true then there is trouble

spotlessduke:
which state gov is that?? not a Nigerian

are u in Nigeria


He is Benue state governor.

The same imbecilic governor that has exonerated the Fulani marauders and claims they are not Nigerians but from other neighbouring countries.

How then will the incessant attacks stop? US it not the same government that is collecting generator taxes to maintain the ozone layer? This change abi? They must give account after all the hyping n propaganda against others just to clinch power.

Dix people dey remember death so?

After them go say Jonathan share our money na why Nigeria dey backward... No be money this one sef they share so.

its well

Imagine the impunity with which some people steal!!!!


Anyways, they are innocent until proven guilty

When the devil is in power, imagine