Benue State Governor, Samuel
Ortom, has vowed to keep crying out over the invasion and ongoing killings in
the state by herdsmen until the people of the state got justice.
He spoke on Thursday when a
delegation of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, South South Zone, led
by Archbishop God-Dowell Oyibo Avwomakpa, visited him at the Peoples House in
Makurdi.
He said if those saddled with the
responsibility of protecting life and property had acted promptly on reports
which he made about threats to invade the state, the invasion and subsequent
massacre could have been averted.
Governor Ortom reiterated his call
for the resignation or sack of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim
Idris, for his unprofessional conduct of taking sides with the invaders and
lack of capacity to stop the killings.
According to the Governor, the
sacking of communities and killings had continued after the burial of the 73
victims, adding that several security operatives had been killed and their
rifles taken by the Fulani herdsmen.
He said, “herdsmen attacks had
become an enormous national problem which patriots across the country must rise
up to tackle decisively.”
The Governor commended the people
of the South-South for rallying in support for the state in its time of need
more than any part of the country and prayed that God would reward them.
Earlier, Archbishop Avwomakpa
called on President Muhammadu Buhari to defend the people of the state as
Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the country.
He said the delegation visited to
acquire first hand information before they could know whether to cry to fellow
Christians in other parts of the world to come to the aid of fellow Christians
in Benue State.
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