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Buhari hasn’t done enough, killings still ongoing in Benue, Ortom laments
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari has only done little to stop the killing of indigenes of the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
The embittered governor stated this on Wednesday apparently in response to Buhari’s earlier letter to the Senate intimating the lawmakers of measures he had and is still putting in place to stop the gruesome killings in the state and other parts of the country.
“You and I know that the killings still continue,” the governor noted in the statement through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Tahav Agerzua.
He said, “Though the President has drafted the IGP to Benue state to stop the killings, that is certainly not enough. The killings is still going on. We cannot say he had done enough because he had notice of these killings a long time ago when these people held a press conference and threatened to invade the state the Governor wrote to him severally.
“Our tribal leaders also raised alarm and made appeals and also wrote an open letter to the President over the matter and before the New Year days killings.
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“He (Buhari) has not done enough, though the killings have reduced but he has certainly not done enough.”
The governor had imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in Gboko town until further notice, following reports of renewed violence in that area of the state on Tuesday.
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