Killings: Ortom faults Buhari’s letter to Senate

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JOHN CHARLES and John Charles

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has faulted the claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that his administration had taken positive actions to halt herdsmen killings in the state.

Buhari had, in a letter to the Senate last week, highlighted steps that his administration had taken to arrest the crisis in Benue State, where 73 victims of herdsmen attacks were given a mass burial.

But Ortom, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media and ICT, Mr. Tahav Agezua, told our correspondent on Friday that the Benue people had yet to see or feel the impact of the President’s action because the killings were still going on in isolated cases.

He lamented that the herdsmen had occupied several communities after sacking the residents and that the residents were living as refugees camps away from their homes.

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