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Franchise21:
The IGP is Buhari's stooge...

What a Shithole!!!

“The police authorities had ample opportunity to also make inputs while the process was ongoing. They, however, failed to do so,” he said.

Mr. Akase further described Mr. Idris’ claim as unfortunate, accusing him of dereliction of duty.

“The unfortunate claim by the IGP indicates that some of those saddled with the responsibility of protecting and property and maintaining law and order have abdicated their duty and become accomplices with those undermining the very existence of the country. This is unacceptable.

“The Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of Benue State is certainly not the cause of the crisis as insinuated by the IGP. Mr Idris needs to be reminded that Fulani herdsmen attacked Benue State more than 50 times and killed scores of people before the law was enacted.

“The IGP should tell Nigerians if states like Adamawa, Zamfara, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Enugu, Edo, Plateau among others where armed herdsmen have killed hundreds of people also have anti-open grazing laws in place.

“It will be recalled that a few days after the killings took place and all fingers were pointed towards the direction of armed herdsmen, the IGP quickly rose in defence of the herdsmen and frankly tried to divert attention from the genocide being perpetrated by herdsmen with a comment that it was a ‘mere communal clash’. Did he not know that there was a law in place in Benue State when he made that first statement?

“With his latest demand that the ranching law of Benue be suspended, it is now clear where the loyalty and interest of the Inspector General of Police lies – certainly not with innocent Nigerians. He has now positioned himself not only as the mouthpiece of those who are killing Benue people but indeed as their shield. Little wonder herdsmen still proudly carry out sophisticated weapons and willfully terrorize innocent people in the state without being arrested,” Mr. Akase said.

The spokesperson also said Mr. Idris only spent one day in Benue, contrary to President Muhammadu Buhari’s order that he should relocate to the state.

“We wish to place it on record that contrary to the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that the Inspector General of Police should relocate to Benue to ensure that the killings stop, the IGP spent only one day in Benue and left for a destination where only he could tell. No one has seen him in Benue since that day,” Mr. Akase said.

The comments followed a PREMIUM TIMES’ report about how the Inspector-General brazenly ignored Mr. Buhari’s January 9 order for him to relocate to the state.

The report found that Mr. Idris spent only three days in Benue between, arriving on January 10 and leaving on January 12.

Messrs. Idris and Moshood did not respond to PREMIUM TIMES’ requests for comments about the rejection of the president’s directive.

Mr. Idris shunned Benue even as the villages that were attacked on January 1 remained inaccessible to both the police special forces deployed there and residents who fled.

Mr. Ortom had initially told PREMIUM TIMES that it was not necessary for Mr. Idris to relocate to Benue since a deputy inspector-general is on the ground to coordinate the police activities across the state.

But the governor now appears to have modified his position, according to Mr. Akase.

“Even if we had said we weren’t interested in him being here, the fact is that the president ordered him to stay here,” Mr. Akase said.

Mr. Akase said Mr. Idris has failed to live up to his constitutional responsibility to protect lives and properties, consequently putting his competence into question.

“If the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris is not competent to help bring an end to the invasion and killing of innocent people in Benue and other states by herdsmen, the noble thing to do is to resign instead of twisting facts to suit his objective,” the spokesperson said.

Governor Samuel Ortom on Saturday accused the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, of being an accomplice to the recent attacks by suspected herdsmen on Benue residents, a day after the police chief reportedly demanded a suspension of anti-open grazing law.

“If truly the IGP said what was widely reported by the media, our conclusion is that his is a clear case of a man who is either on a mission to mislead the nation or is complicit in the attacks on Benue communities and the killing of many people by terror herdsmen,” Mr. Ortom said in a statement to PREMIUM TIMES Saturday evening.

Neither Mr. Idris nor police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, responded to PREMIUM TIMES’ requests for a reaction to the governor’s allegations.

In November 2017, Benue became the second state to implement a law that specifically targets the activities of herdsmen in the state, coming months after Governor Ayodele Fayose started enforcing a similar law in Ekiti State.

The laws followed attacks by suspected herdsmen reported in many states.

At a Senate hearing on the recent surge in attacks linked to killer herdsmen across the country, Mr. Idris testified before a closed panel of lawmakers that the anti-open grazing law in Benue State was to blame for the scores of deaths that had been recorded in the agrarian state in recent weeks.

So far this year, over 100 people have been killed in herdsmen attacks across the state. Two local government areas suffered more than 100 deaths in successive attacks between January 1 and 3, an incident that brought the activities of herdsmen under renewed focus across the country.

An outraged Nigerian Senate launched an inquiry into the attacks, with Mr. Idris finally testifying on Friday after initially failing to honour invitations. The Senate also plans a national security summit with the executive over the killings, which are also being regularly recorded in Nasarawa, Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna States.

A senator who was present at the closed-door hearing told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday evening that Mr. Idris demanded a suspension of the anti-open grazing law in Benue and elsewhere.

The police chief suggested that laws against open-grazing should only be imposed when ranches have been created for the grooming of livestock, escalating a confrontation that began with Mr. Idris’ description of the killings as “a communal clash” last month.

“He asked for stoppage of implementation of the law until ranches are provided, then the law can be gradually implemented again.,” the senator said, pleading anonymity.

The comments came days after the Minister of Defence, Mansur Ali, also blamed the anti-open grazing laws for recent killings.

Harsh criticisms poured in for the police chief shortly after his comments surfaced in the media, with many pointing out that herdsmen attacks predated the enactment of anti-open grazing laws.

Since 2013, more than 50 attacks linked to herdsmen were reported in Benue and neighbouring states like Nasarawa and Taraba.

In February 2016, more than 500 residents were killed in Agatu, Benue State.

A PREMIUM TIMES investigation showed how Comment (17) between 2013 and 2016, but hardly had anyone been punished for the killings.

More than 100,000 villagers are currently living in several camps for the internally-displaced persons across Benue, according to state officials.

Herdsmen have accused the villagers of stealing their livestock, with Fulani leaders telling PREMIUM TIMES in a 2016 interview that the massacre in Agatu was a reprisal attack for the alleged theft and the 2013 killing of one of their leaders.

Mr. Ortom replied Mr. Idris with a statement to PREMIUM TIMES Saturday evening, saying the fact that the police had not denied the reports indicates that the Inspector-General was accurately quoted.

“Indeed it was this unrelenting spate of attacks that prompted the people of the state to seek a permanent solution to the incessant clashes between farmers and herders hence the law for the establishment of ranches as the best method of animal husbandry across the globe,” the governor said in a statement signed by his chief press secretary, Terver Akase. “The law which has constitutional backing followed due process with the requisite public hearings and inputs from various stakeholders.”

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Nature will never smile on anyone who has a hand in these killings and the people that support it because they gaining directly or indirectly from this very government. It shall never be well with them all.

This is a case of Anu ana-agba egbe
o na-ata sharwama

BankeSmalls:
Ibos, do not rejoice because your children are more nourished than our children in the south west.

The reason for the underweight of south west children is that the whole children were ordered to do " dry fasting" for 7 days before the testing

oloriadejoke:
..yea

oloriadejoke:
..it was splendid

oloriadejoke:
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oloriadejoke:
....make I tell you the truth,I no get experience for the field ooo,na only rice and pomo I dey hawk go sell for them there

oloriadejoke:
....me too I dey greet and shake bumbum ooo

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, during his meeting with the Senate on Friday, reportedly blamed the renewed tension in Benue state on Governor Samuel Ortom's statement during the burial of the initial 73 victims.

A source who spoke to Daily Trust claimed that the IGP told the senate committee investigating the herdsmen crisis that the display of victims of the herdsmen and farmers clashes during their burial was another reason the crisis escalated.

“Also worthy of mention is the public display of corpses, coupled with unguarded and inciting speeches by the Benue State governor before and during the mass burial of the victims of the crisis. These utterances renewed tension leading to youths of Tiv ethnic group unleashing violent attacks on residents of Makurdi," the IGP reportedly said.

He added that the allegation by Governor Ortom that armed militia were being camped in Tunga, Awe local government area of Nasarawa state to unleash mayhem on Benue people was untrue. “Because I visited Tunga during my assessment tour of the location,” he said.

NAIJ.com previously reported that the IGP Idris during his meeting with a Senate committee on Friday, reportedly suggested that states with anti-grazing law be ordered to suspend the law until ranches can be provided for herdsmen.

Idris reportedly blamed the clashes between herdsmen and farmers on the anti-grazing law when he appeared in front of the senate on Friday.

The IGP also claimed that 100 people have been arrested in connection with the killings in Benue state and suspects have been charged to court.

AuroraB:
Ezigbo Mmadu. Ajuru'm gi ijebe akpo onye ozo

AuroraB:
Biakene, what does the parts you emboldened mean

It was a rape that cost me my marriage. As the guy was entering me, I was supposed to feel pains but that wasn't so. I felt a kind of electrifying sensation that I have never felt in my whole life. I screamed oh my God, as he started pounding on me I didn't know when I was holding him hard and begging him not to stop to the amazement of others, I was enjoying being raped by a criminal.

oloriadejoke:
.....so far he get building materials available and lots of workers on the field

ipobarecriminals:
Nah ipob yweet.They can disguise/change to PIGS

Abuja – Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang has given reasons why the President did not react instantly to the herdsmen/farmers’ clashes in Benue State that had resulted in deaths of many.

The presidential aide, who briefed Buhari Project Group, comprising of Buhari Media Support group and other Buhari/Osinbajo coalition groups, on issues that have been misinterpreted by some sections of Nigerians, said the President waited to have the full report about the situation before going public.

“There were allegations of herdsmen being infiltrated by insurgents to cause the mayhem in Benue State; there were other allegations that foreigners from neighbouring countries were part of it. So, the President had to get the clear picture of what was actually going on.”

Enang said that it is not true that President Buhari did not do anything or did very little while the killings were being perpetrated in Benue, adding that, “the President preferred to do more and talk less.”

He referred to a letter which the president wrote to the Senate in response to the Senate’s earlier letter demanding to know what he had done so far on the issue of Benue killings.

Senator Enang also said it was wrong to continue to blame the president on the issue of land for grazing or cattle colonies in the states of the federation, adding that by the provisions of the land use Act of 1978, which are reflected in the constitution, that have not been amended, the president has no power over land.

He said that even though the constitution spelt out the fact that state and local governments should provide land for, among others, grazing, but that President Buhari only appealed to governors to implement such constitutional provisions.

“In a federal system of government we are practicing, there are certain things that the president cannot do, and that is why he is being cautious so that the same people that are accusing him now of not doing those things would not also blow grammar if he does them.”

The explanation, he said, became necessary so as to enable the support groups to carry the message down to the grassroots as the nation prepares for the 2019 general elections.

On the criticism and advice by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo that Buhari should shun the general elections in 2019, he welcomed the ex-president’s advice, saying he was merely acting as a referee in the whole process leading to next year’s election.

HOLYDICK:
Is he hitting dat ?