Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has accused the federal government of participation in the country’s terrorist concerns for the umpteenth time.
Governor Ortom revealed this in a press conference on Sunday, January 22, 2023, shortly after visiting victims of herdsmen attacks on the Abagena IDPs camp who are being treated at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital. Makurdi argued that the federal government was defending herdsmen who were carrying out unjustified killings in Benue State.
This is my pain. Since 2015, I have cried out loud that the federal government is complicit in the issues of terrorism by herders in the Niger Republic from Futa Jalon (Senegal), Cameroon, Mauritania, Libya, and other parts of the world in order for them to come to Nigeria and take it and make it their country. Governor Ortom was obviously angry by what he saw.
“One thing that pains me is that these people have not hidden their intentions and they are known. The federal government is protecting them. I have called for the arrest of the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore several times. I have written to the presidency. I have written to DSS, I have written to the Police, and yet they are adamant. It is not that these people are not known, they are known,” Ortom insisted.
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“The day that the Federal Government wants these acts of terrorism against our people to end, that will be it. But for now, they are complicit. They are working with them to push for the take-over of this country and make this country a Fulani nation.”
“I am quoting the Fulani National Movement, I am quoting Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore who are responsible for these recruitment and killings that are going on. No one has attempted to even call these people and question them and do the needful. If we are a country that believes in the rule of law, this will not continue.”
He said, “We are fed up with this type of lawlessness that is going on.” He expressed displeasure at the ongoing invasions and murders of Benue civilians by foreign Fulani terrorists.
“I have restrained myself from becoming a lawless governor or a lawless leader, because this will lead to anarchy and when we get to that level that is war and nobody can pray for war. Those who have experienced it before, including security agencies, none of them will ask for this kind of situation,” he added.
