Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom says that he would rather die than surrender land to killer herdsmen that have made over a million persons homeless in his state.
Ortom made this vow on Tuesday in Makurdi, when he hosted the mission team of the Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors without Borders.
The governor accused the Nigerian government of paying lip service to its fight against insecurity.
He maintained that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government can arrest killer herdsmen but has chosen to look the other way to fulfil an alleged agenda of ethnic cleansing.
He said, “Our people are dying, our women, mothers are being raped, our children can’t go to school, they are suffering.
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“These criminals, they display themselves on social media, claiming they are here for an agenda to drive our people away and take over their land and also kill them.
“And they are here courtesy of the Federal Government but for me, if they come, then I’m ready to die rather than surrender my land to Fulani men. If God didn’t protect me, then I need no help from anybody.”
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“The spate of insecurity has also led to increased internal displacement which is now commonplace in most parts of the nation’s food basket as statistics continue to swell on what seems to be a daily basis with many more communities sacked from their ancestral home by the persistent attacks with no hope in sight for their safe return home.”
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