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Benue police commissioner faults Ortom’s directive on herdsmen

By Joseph Wantu (Makurdi)
16 March 2017   |   4:17 am
The Benue State Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama has faulted the order by Governor Samuel Ortom to evacuate herdsmen from Buruku local council in the state.

Samuel Ortom

The Benue State Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama has faulted the order by Governor Samuel Ortom to evacuate herdsmen from Buruku local council in the state.

The governor on Monday during a visit to Buruku to ascertain the level of destruction ordered security agencies in the state to immediately evacuate armed herdsmen from the area.

But Makama in an interview with journalists yesterday in Makurdi faulted the directive by the governor. He said nobody has the right to banish anyone from any part of the country.

Makama explained that the constitution permits everyone to reside anywhere in the country. “The herdsmen should have been advised to leave. And if they discover that the people are not receptive to them, they would have left quietly rather than push them out. The state belongs to all Nigerians,” the CP maintained.

He assured that the police would do everything to protect lives and property in the area.

Meanwhile, the new Special Adviser to Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu on Police Affairs, Dr. Ugochukwu Collins Obi has pledged to ensure an end to the incessant clashes between herdsmen local communities in the state.

Obi spoke yesterday on the clash between Umuobasiukwu community and herdsmen at the weekend and another one at Ozuitem where many lives were allegedly lost.

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    We must start from somewhere. If the Police who are supposed to protect life and properties refused to do their job on the order of Makama or whatever he called himself what do you expect a helpless governor to do than to give such directive. He is the Chief Security Officer of the state. He cannot watch his own people maimed killed destroyed in their own land. No doubt everybody has freedom to live in any part of the country but with peace now. Every ethnic group inter co-exist in every part of this country, why must the herdsmen always force people out of their own land, why are they always violent. If I may ask don’t these hausa fulani herdsmen have their own state. If Makama the commissioner of police cannot protect the people of the state rather than taking side with herdsmen let him allow the Governor to do his job as the CSO of the state. The so called Makama should be transferred out of the state with immediate effect.

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      Where are the chibok girls? May be the police are accomplices or what is he talking about? Why was he there and these killings still happened? He should answer this question first before commenting on what the governor said!!!