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omenka:
You got your stupid data from Oracle Printing Press.

Bloody liar. Next time do your homework diligently before engaging someone like me.

omenka:
Leave the crook. Imagine him spitting lies such horrendous lies here. I've shared screenshots for him. Let me see how he flips this one.

Llight101:
Hahahahahahahaha..... You sound so funny, it hasn't gotten to the point of being this bitter.
Ortom met 90 billion naira and not 35 from Suswam at least you should get your data right.
You know so little about your State. You mentioned BIRS and IGR, so far, the past administration was more clean in terms of IGR, there has never been a more public display of the IGR, in fact, in real time than the Ortom administration.
Go to the BIRS HQ and check the Dash Board for yourself maybe that will calm you down. I am not talking just about the BIRS alone but all MDAs unified into the BIRS.
My problem with you guys is that once some one tells the truth that doesn't conform with what you want to hear thenn BOOOOOm! the person becomes a poorly paid hiring.

SalamRushdie:
I hear they have been even inducted into the civil service, so as it is now the right thing to do is retire them and pay them their outstanding if you no longer require their service

SalamRushdie:
I gather they have been working for a year now and Haven't even been paid a dime , is the new governor going to pay them off ? Remember they were working for a year

omenka:
Are you even listening to yourself? Besides a handful of employments made in BSU, Ortom never deemed it right to take in civil servants, only to do so a month before leaving office. Those that have been in service for years are being owed ten months cumulative salaries, and last got paid in November 2022!!

How in seven hells do you justify such wickedness?? Yet his personal projects scattered across the state have workers on site 247, most notable being the hostel for his private school being built along Otukpo road. Even at night, they're building.

You people just sit wherever you are and make statements about stuffs you know absolutely nothing about.

Imagine you have a child you're totally unable to fend for, a child that is sick and starving, yet insist your wife bore more children, say, five more. Isn't that madness?

Kyase:
There's no war anywhere

Everything was zoned even before the elections

thorpido:
Brave man he was but he and his crew messed up by not employing tact.How do you start dividing the country when the coup has not succeeded yet?

A wild hippopotamus has allegedly killed a pregnant woman along the old bridge crossing point of River Benue on Tuesday in Makurdi Benue state capital.

There are two bridges on River Benue in Makurdi- the old and the new bridge.

An eyewitness account told The Nation the victim went foy the island with other traders to buy vegetables for commercial purposes when she was attacked at the shore of the river.

The Nation gathered the woman, whose identity was not clear, was being ferried in an engine boat, which developed a fault and transferred to a wooden one.

The attacked boat was broken into pieces with the victim drowned, it was learnt
When a search party was instituted, her body was recovered on Wednesday.

Benue Police spokesman SP Sewuese Anene, said she was yet to get the information.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday mocked the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom for failing to win his election to go to the Senate, claiming that the people of the state rejected him because of his alleged woeful performance in eight years.

The President also accused the outgoing governor of frustrating all peaceful efforts made towards solving the security situation in the state, adding that instead of embracing the government efforts, the governor was busy politicising everything thing

President Buhari via a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said that the Benue people would heave a sigh of relief that the governor is exiting office, while a more responsible governor will be mounting the saddle.

The statement entitled, “President Buhari’s Benue record speaks for itself, let the people of Benue speak for themselves too,” said governor Ortom ignored numerous intelligence reports passed to him for action.

He said, “In a series of apparently syndicated editorials, this country’s newspapers – the Daily Trust and ThisDay – have attempted to lay the blame of the dire security situation in Benue State entirely at the feet of the outgoing president. As for the man who has actually presided over Benue State for the past eight years, its outgoing governor Samuel Ortom, the editors of those publications, in their near identical articles, elected to give him a free pass.

“Fortunately, the people of Benue State know the truth. After all, it is they who have suffered under Ortom’s “leadership” – if one can call it such. It is they who have experienced first-hand the mass killings, the torture, the litany of atrocities as Benue’s security situation plummeted ever further. It is they who buried their loved ones while watching their careless, irresponsible and incompetent governor politicise on those freshly dug graves.

“And it is they who turned to the last privilege they had left: their democratic privilege, to resoundingly kick out Ortom and his so-called People’s Democratic Party in favour of a new governor, Reverend Father Hyacinth Iornem Alia from Buhari’s party, the APC.

“But since the Daily Trust and ThisDay may not be as well informed as their Benue compatriots, this blatant rewriting of history must be addressed. For their education, we humbly submit a list – far from exhaustive – of the steps taken personally by President Buhari to address the deteriorating situation in Benue. These were, in many cases, roundly ignored – if not outright obstructed – by former Governor Ortom:

“i. A number of in-person meetings with the Governor of Benue State and other community leaders, assuring them of the Federal Government’s commitment to protecting farmers and communities.

“ii. The establishment and funding of Joint Security Operations, code-named Operation Whirl Stroke (OWS). To date, the OWS Team remains in place. A number of OWS security agents have given their lives protecting the people of Benue. Many were endangered further by Ortom’s fake news and disinformation campaigns, and his unwillingness to engage with the project.

“iii. The deployment of special security forces to flash-points in the State including the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air Force, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Police Force, Department of State Services and other security agencies.

“iv. The deployment of an array of NAF fighter aircraft, Mi-35 helicopter gunships as well as Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance platforms.

“v. The Deployment of ten (10) Units of the Police Mobile Force, Ten (10) Units of Police Special Forces (Tactical Operation Units) and Aerial Surveillance Teams (Police Helicopters).

“vi. The Acquisition and deployment of modern military armaments.

“vii. The provision of timely and actionable intelligence to Ortom (which was routinely ignored).

“viii. The prompt provision of humanitarian support to victims via the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.”

He further said, “Despite these efforts, we know that the new Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has his work cut out. In his own words, he is inheriting a State that is in the Intensive Care Unit. Perhaps if disgraced Governor Ortom had been more concerned with doing his job than politicising the tragedies so frequently taking place under his watch, the situation in Benue might be very different, like in any of its neighbours – Taraba, Nasarawa, the FCT – which all enjoy peace.

“Instead, Ortom stubbornly refused to engage with the detailed, holistic approach clearly spelt out by the Federal Government. He arrogantly chose his own, destructive path. He blamed the Fulani for every problem that arose. He ignored numerous intelligence reports passed to him for action. He rejected police findings in investigations that didn’t meet his egotistical worldview. He politicized every life lost on his watch.

“So, thank God the people of Benue rejected him so roundly at elections. His contract was not renewed. He failed a Senate election. Even the person he endorsed for Governorship was rejected.

“They know better than anyone else the true reasons for the situation in Benue. If anyone is looking for someone to blame, just ask the people of Benue.”

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has said he can make appointments on May 29, 2023 when his administration ends.

The governor who stated this while replying to those lamenting about appointments he has made.

The governor who spoke through the chief press secretary Nathaniel Ikyur during an interview with our correspondent in his office said Governor Ortom has the right to appoint anybody in his cabinet as long as May 29 has not come.

He said, “from now to 11:pm of May 29th 2023 the Governor is free to make any appointment, so people lamenting about the governor’s last minute appointment are on their own”

Recall that the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), raised the alarm over alleged planned appointments by Governor Samuel Ortom at the wee hour of his administration.

The publicity secretary of APC, Daniel Ihomun, in a statement, said the party has gotten reliable information that Governor Ortom plans to appoint new permanent secretaries and give accelerated promotions.

According to him, “we members of the APC wondered why Ortom would be making appointments at the twilight of his tenure when he suppose to be writing his hand over note”

He alleged that the new appointees according to information would be strategically placed in selected ministries to constitute impediments to the incoming administration.

According to him, “we want to advise those whose names have been penciled down for such appointments, promotions and placements to reject the offer for their good”

“We want you to have it at the back of their minds that those who refuse to heed to this warning and take up such appointments will be treated as saboteurs and enemies of the incoming administration.”