FULANI HERDSMEN ATTACKS HAVE BROUGHT A MAJOR SETBACK TO MY PEOPLE - GOV. ORTOM LAMENTS

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom

Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, yesterday, disclosed that his country home has been rendered into a downturn by Fulani mercenaries, who he said had killed over 50 of his kinsmen with over 200 hectares of his rice farm razed. 

The governor lamented that the incessant killings and destruction of lives and property in  Benue had created a 25 year retrogression of development in the state.

He made this known when he received the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors’ Forum, led by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who paid him condolence visit over the invasion of Agatu and other parts of Benue by the herdsmen. 

He said, “the mercenaries invaded my village, killed over 50 persons and destroyed over 200 hectares of my rice farm. As I am sitting here, I have no ancestral home. They killed children, old men and women in my community. 

“The mercenaries come to Benue not just to graze but to steal, kill and destroy the livelihood of the agrarian people, after which they take possession of the land knowing full well that all we have here are our farms. 

“These attacks have brought a major setback to the people, especially with our declining revenue from the federal allocation, which was about N7 billion before I assumed office. But this month stood at N1.3 billion, while our monthly wage bill stands at close to N4 billion.” the governor lamented.

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