AS the World commemorates this year’s Humanitarian Day Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has called on international organizations to remember the 500,000 victims of herdsmen attack in Benue state.
Ortom who appealed to United Nations, other international bodies and civil society organizations expressed sadness that the state had since the past eight years become target of herdsmen attack.
Ortom in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase said he was elated by the theme of this year World Humanitarian Day ‘Not a Target’.
He lamented that the people of Benue state have become targets of armed herdsmen attacks in gross violation of global conventions on the right to life and human dignity.
The governor cried out that the humanitarian crisis occasioned by armed herdsmen attacks the last eight months have overstretched lean…
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