He said the traditional ruler pleaded with them to embrace peace and work together for the overall good of the state in general and Tivland in particular.
Browsing: Samuel Ortom
The PDP chieftain wondered why the governor, rather than doing the needful to stop the indiscriminate killing by the Fulani herdsmen under his watch, decided to join the people in crying and blaming everybody but himself for the massacre.
So it is with Jimoh Moshood who went on Channels Television this week to declare that the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, is a “drowning man”. Governor Ortom’s offence is that after the initial killing of 73 Benue citizens by criminal herdsmen, followed by more killings by rampaging herdsmen in other states – Taraba, Adamawa, Ondo etc, the Governor had accused the Federal Government of lack of interest in the welfare and security of the people of Benue State. Ortom apparently called on Abuja for help. He got no quality response.
Wike made the donation when he led other stakeholders in Rivers on a condolence visit to Governor Samuel Ortom in Makurdi.
THE Senate rejection of the was a result of a comment by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and Senator George Akume.
The Special Adviser on Media and ICT to the Governor, Tahav Agerzua, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Makurdi.
Ortom gave the advice on Tuesday in Makurdi when BEMOA members led by its President, Patrick Tachin, paid him a visit.
Bafarawa who made the appeal on Friday when he paid a condolence visit to Governor Samuel Ortom stressed that it was time to move forward instead of finding who was right or wrong.
The state had come under attack since January 1, 2018, with the Governor, Samuel Ortom, revealing that no fewer than 73 persons were killed on the first day of the year.
A civil society organisation, Initiative for Civil Rights Advancement in Nigeria, levelled the accusation against Ortom and Ishaku in a petition dated January 16, 2018 and signed by Engr. Yakubu Bulama, Information Officer of ICRAN, and addressed to the Office of Madame Fatou Bensouda of the ICC.
Ortom, who gave the warning at an emergency stakeholders meeting in Makurdi on Monday, urged the people to report any violation to appropriate authority for action.
Ortom, who disclosed this on Wednesday while receiving the leaders of South and Middle Belt Forum at the Government House, Makurdi, said two persons were allegedly killed in each of the local governments.
The delegation was received by the State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Michael Gusa, on behalf of the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, at the State Emergency Management Agency, Makurdi.
Ortom stated this in Makurdi when the delegation from Plateau led by the Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Town Planning, Festus Fuater, paid him a condolence visit.
The group, under he auspices of Good Governance and Transparency Initiative, alleged that Ortom has been been arming militants, whom he instructed to cleanse out specific ethnic groups from the state based on the anti-grazing law that has remained a subject of contention.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that suspected herdsmen on New Year day attacked and killed 73 persons in Logo and Guma Local government areas of Benue.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that suspected herdsmen on New Year day attacked and killed 73 persons in Logo and Guma Local government areas of Benue.
The governor disclosed this on Sunday when he visited the camps in the two Local Government Areas of the state.
Prince Raymond Enero, the National Co-ordinator of the group, noted that Ortom should be held responsible for the breakdown of law and order in his jurisdiction and must be additionally tried as an accessory to murder in all the killings that have followed the crisis instigated by him, once his tenure is over or once he does the needful by stepping aside.
Governor Samuel Ortom announced government’s decision to hold a mass burial for the deceased at a stakeholders meeting in Makurdi on Wednesday.