Governor Samuel Ortom has told residents of Benue state to defend themselves with dane guns and other weapons not prohibited by the law, when attacked by gunmen, Newspremises reports.

Ortom gave the directive at an inter-denominational church service held at the government house in Makurdi, Benue capital on Sunday May 23.

He further disclosed that the licence to own a dane gun could be obtained at local government secretariats in the state.

The Governor said;

“I will no longer announce the deaths of those killed by Fulani herdsmen, rise up and defend yourselves with weapons not prohibited by law, bows and arrows, spears and knives.

“Get a licence for dane guns from local government chairmen and use them to defend yourselves.

“God assured me some time back that as long as I lived within the circle of his presence, no weapon fashioned against me shall prosper.”

Source: https://newspremises.com.ng/defend-yourselves-with-dane-guns-and-weapons-not-prohibited-by-law-governor-ortom-tells-benue-residents/

Mehn this benue killings and unrest is getting out of hand,the man is resilient and I like him for that. Don't worry Sir your enemies will be brought to a perpetual disgrace soon.

I pity this man

A good move! I wish to see more of this happening in troubled states. Especially states experiencing banditry and terrorism

Why is it difficult for Mumuyetti Allah to understand that they now have more enemies than friends in Africa here?

This is 2021,not 1804

Provide dem with the gunz na

So na for only cultism Benue youths dey show ruggedity?They can't come together and defend there land from blood thirsty murderer's.

Don't they have well connected men that can source for weapon.

PrinceOfLagos:
I pity this man

pity yourself first.

Fulanis have occupied farms in Epe,soon there will be IDPs littered in Badagry and Cotonou for your people.

So you see,I am beginning to pity you guys.

Subsidise guns for them

Everybody better learn how to handle one weapon or the other,
You would soon be guarding your streets yourself,

Oga defend your people, not until they start killing themselves with the guns And arrow

What then is his responsibility as governor? He should resign so that his people know that they have no Chief Security Officer. This talk is just playing to the gallery. Ortom is in the know about the killings of his people but is just playing politics. They know Nigerians are gullible people who believe anything hence the nonsense back and forth while human beings are slaughtered every second.

Who will wake otorm from sleep? You're telling your people not to use prohibited weapons, but their killers are using prohibited weapons. Nigerians who do una this thing abeg?

ccffwx:
What then is his responsibility as governor? He should resign so that his people know that they have no Chief Security Officer. This talk is just playing to the gallery. Ortom is in the know about the killings of his people but is just playing politics. They know Nigerians are gullible people who believe anything hence the nonsense back and forth while human beings are slaughtered every second.

if you like change your name to Chelsea na you Sabi

Benue people should do what yahaya Bello did to miyyeti Allah chairman in kogi state.

Foolishness at its peak. A constitution wants to push your people to extinction and you're still subservient to it. The same constitution that those killing your people are trampling. Benue people are typical idiots. Some of us warned them in 2015, but they with Yoruba were fooling around. Hope they're all ready to be driven off their ancestral land. It beats me that only Igbo is the tribe that knows how to make the right call in this country. I assure you that if Jonathan wasn't a minority, even the minorities of the south would have shouted sai baba with the rest of idiotic Nigerian tribes.

What a failed cursed country called Nigeria...Benue people are at the mercy of killer Fulani herdsmen.

It’s now all man for himself It’s clear government can’t protect the Benue people

behold how condition affect, change and control behaviour!


ortom that will send soldiers to patrol and rade our community in search of any person with english gun, going from room to rooms, houses to houses hoping to catch any resident with gun to be punish and make sure the community tax themselve to bail him.

even when enemy attach, and the youths are defending their land, they must withdraw if they hear that soldiers are coming, they can't join hands with the military in defence of their land just for the fear of the law(under the governor ortom).

he is now the one advising us to defend ourselve with guns. i can't believe this

but i can still remember that it all started when his village was attack by same herdsmen and probably his love ones were either killed or affected.

thankGod for bringing this condition to the life of our very lovely governor ortom

ZorGBUooeh:
Provide dem with the gunz na

So na for only cultism Benue youths dey show ruggedity?They can't come together and defend there land from blood thirsty murderer's.

Don't they have well connected men that can source for weapon.

they can even without the help of well connected people but its due to the former behaviour of the government and military maltreating any body found with an english gun(as we call guns which are not local), going from village to villages following people to their home to search their houses and room, any body in possession of a weapon will have to take it to the farm or bury it somewhere in his backyard for fear of the military.


but thankGod things had changed