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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has declared that the state is currently on fire.

Ortom said he had to cut short his vacation because of the senseless killing of his people by herdsmen.

Speaking shortly after arriving the country from his holiday abroad, the emotion-laden governor asserted that the climax of the whole attacks was the recent killing of two clerics and 17 others in the state.

The governor, who fought back tears while addressing newsmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, called on his people to get prepared.

He said, “There is no way my state would be on fire with the magnitude of what we are seeing today and I’ll still be on vacation. I cannot be on vacation when the entire state is on fire to this magnitude. I never expected what is happening to have taken place. I know my Deputy, the Acting Governor is doing his best.

“I’ve been in touch with him on daily basis but at this particular time he needs me and other stakeholders of the state to come together, and of course the Presidency, to stop this pogrom that is going on. This is unwarranted. There is no basis for this whatsoever.

“The fact that we have chosen to be law abiding should not be seen as weakness on our side but we’ve chosen that we’ll support government and ensure that at all times we follow due process, we respect the laws of the land and that is why we’ve not taken laws into our hands.

“I’ll continue to appeal to our people to be law abiding but this thing has to stop. Like I keep saying after Benue it’ll be another state. So it’s not just about Benue. You can see the killings going on all over the place. But the climax of this is the killing of clergymen worshiping in the house of God.

“That is what has led me not to even think about sleeping but to come back. I believe that the Presidency would definitely act on this. We appreciate Mr. President for coming out to condemn this act and I believe he will also direct that these people must be arrested because they are known. The security operatives know where they are and there is every need for us to support the security agencies because I’ve also appreciated the fact that they’re really overwhelmed with the situation.

“The communities must come together and do everything that is law abiding to defend themselves. I’ve always said that self preservation is the first law of nature. There’s no point running away. I’m aware that people who ran away to IDP camps were also killed so why are you running? Those who did not run were killed, those who ran were killed.

“So, it is better, if you make some attempts and support the security agencies, you may have some way of helping so there is no point running away. The Federal Government is aware of this, the state Government is aware of this, and the security agencies are aware of this but they are completely overwhelmed.

“Nigerians, Benue State people must rise up so that together we can work with security agencies and see where we can come in whether by way of logistics, by way of physical support to the security agencies to ensure that they overcome this. It’ll be better for all of us. There is no point running away.

“Every Benue State man and woman must be prepared because Benue State is under siege and we have no other place to go. We can’t go to any other state and take over the land of another state. It’s a land we have and we must stand to defend it but we must be law abiding in all that we’re going to do. I believe that based on the statement from the Presidency action would be followed and these killings would stop.

“I want to condole Benue people especially the Catholic Church. This is unwarranted, people who have made sacrifice of their lives to preach peace and bring love for mankind to pass through this kind of thing I think it’s unwarranted and this will not be accepted.”

SOURCE
https://www.reportnaija.ng/2018/04/28/herdsmen-be-prepared-benue-on-fire-ortom-tells-citizens/

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Supply your people arms through third parties. Form vigilante groups at local government levels and arm them through mercenaries. Stop rhetoric and act, your people are facing extinction!!! This man is yet to get the memo, he is busy supporting Buhari and asking his people to remain law abiding, yet the same Buhari is just watching while people are being hacked to death on a daily basis. Let him ask himself this question; if tables are turned and this killings happen to be taken place in Katsina, would Buhari have kept quite and pretend that all is well? Won't he have sent thousands of soldiers to haunt them down?? How many fulani herdsmen terrorists have been killed or arrested?? Are they ghosts?? Can't Ortom see this thing for what it is, A STATE SANCTIONED JIHAD AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN BENUE?? How many more innocent souls need to be wasted before he takes drastic action to save his people from total annihilation?? Now consider this, does the Nigerian army have the capacity to stop this herdsmen? The answer is a resounding yes! Then why are they standing by watching people being massacred just the way they did in 1966 during the pogrom against Igbos in the North. Why has the Benue elite not approached the ICC yet to report Buhari for war crimes?? Are they all fools??

I thought that you guys want ur own country

Paul Unongo never see anything yet. Enjoy ur one Nigeria.
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OnyeOGA:
I thought that you guys want ur own country

Paul Unongo never see anything yet. Enjoy ur one Nigeria.
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Paul Unongo finally received sense, just like his twin brother Dino Melaye

http://sunnewsonline.com/unongo-resigns-from-northern-elders-forum/

The people are prepared; are you set to lead. In war, we don't protest but rather fight.

Orton, you keep praising an intellectually lazy and incompetent leader whose antecedents had shown he's insincere regarding Fulani terrorist attacks on your people.

Likewise you are praising security operatives whose leadership are compromised as seen from their utterances and actions.

And you still asked your people to defend themselves with stones and sticks when you and leaders in your state ought to arm your people against these murderous invaders?

ORTON YOU ARE CONFUSED.

ortom is a fool. all mouth, no action.

Where is that goat named Paul unongo?

Oh I forgot,It's not a biafran case..The case is a minor case ad can be resolved amicably.

Even with all d killings u are still licking buhari's asš..... Pathetic
Wat a pusšy niggër

Ortom is a confused "Uncle Tom".

For crying out, he is the chief security officer of the state.
If despite his immunity; he can't defend his people, how then does he expect helpless people without any immunity to defend themselves.

Our mumu don do sha.
It's so sad that Benue's only influential person is Tuface Idibia who is also a celebrated two-faced, lily-livered coward.

The only way out of this is self service...buy weaponry to defeat the evil cohorts

Lawmakers aren't summoning the IGP for Benue killings, they are summoning the IGP for Dino Melaye.....#smh
The FIRST responsibility of any government is SECURITY...The people of Benue state have suffered for too long

Dude even went on hols

This one they are preparing, let them remember that all is fair in war oooo.

Just look at what Orton is still saying, instead of you to declare the herdsmen illegal,and create your own security outfit to hack them down.

When it gets to that level, the bastard we have as President won't have choice but to engage the security outfit to quel everything.

The governor is also the CSO of the state,so anything you do will be legal

I will recommend that benue people hire OPCs, or bakassi boys or form their very own group made up of young men.

Let them have a number to call when these people come and let them the rounded up. And burnt alive with the recording circulated on social media so we can tag buhari and his lazy son. Yusuf

Never be carry away with foretell,we heard tiv are best in Nigeria army that the very good in fighting,can one say that presently? No , haahahaha your governor said you should all get ready to be kill like that rat you use to eat

This killing started before u leave for vacation, and u keep repeating same story Benue people defend ur self cos government/Governor we do nothing to protect their own citizen

I wonder what all these politicians needs vacation for... in a state in such chaos

Presidency...? Which one abeg?

nonsense, keep on being law abiding, an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind but right now thats whats needed, let there be free for all in that state between benue and fulani herdsmen...if you are going on your own and see a herdsmen controlling his cattle look for a way to kill him and all the cows...walahi sometimes i just wanna kill to live.

Ortom still even had time to go on vacation abroad ? Our leaders are all insensitive prices

Ode! Nomadic fools are slaughtering your pple u are there talking trash

Now listening to this governor, I really weep for the citizens of the state.

One Nigeria fall on Benue state.

You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.

They will never understand Emeka O and Nnamdi K (Igbo's in general)

OnyeOGA:
I thought that you guys want ur own country

Paul Unongo never see anything yet. Enjoy ur one Nigeria.
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U are representing your family Oga. This tells us how people in ur village think and speak

This Governor is a coward, the security agencies and the presidency are the once killing you and you still have the mouth to praise them and ask your people to support them and be law abiding!

the law (which is the presidency and the security) have gone against you and your people, so which one is law abiding? the president admitted that if not for the little education he got, he would have been one of the herdsmen killing across the country so he knows the killers are his kinsmen and not some Gaddafi trained militias.

Orthom you deserve to die, wallahi!, instead of you to begin to rally round the south for support for a strong coalition against the fulani nation, you are here speaking English to the press.

Polskywolsky:
U are representing your family Oga. This tells us how people in ur village think and speak

you no know
Afonja!
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Give your people what it take to fight the mosters,the rest would be history.

So sad!

The most confusing part of this whole national security threat is that the state governor belongs to same political party with the presidency...

Benue is just a victim of the Islamic agenda