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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government places cow above human lives, accusing it of going the extra miles to urinate on the victims’ graves.
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Ortom stated this through his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, while reacting to an earlier statement issued by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
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The president’s media aide had, in a statement issued on Wednesday, raised concerns that the Federal Government had taken various steps to address the insecurity problem in Benue State but was frustrated by the outgoing governor, Ortom, who he said was paying lip service to security and using it to drive his politics in the state.
Shehu said, “Instead, Ortom stubbornly refused to engage with the detailed, holistic approach clearly spelt out by the Federal Government.
“He arrogantly chose his own destructive path. He blamed the Fulani for every problem that arose. He ignored numerous intelligence reports passed to him for action.
“He rejected police findings into investigations that didn’t meet his egoistical worldview. He politicised every life lost on his watch.
But reacting through his CPS, Nathaniel Ikyur, Ortom likened the statement of the presidency to making animals urinate in the graves of victims of herdsmen invasion of the state, alleging that the president was, indeed, responsible for the killings in the state.
He said, “The Presidency has shown in this recent public statement that they have placed cows above human lives and made the animals urinate on the graves of those they massacred in Benue and elsewhere across the country. If not, they wouldn’t have gone to town to mock the slain in their graves.
“It is an insult to Benue people, including those killed and butchered children, the maimed, raped and abused women and the over two million people living under squalid conditions in Nigeria’s largest Internally Displaced Camps in the state.
“The Presidency’s statement is a reckless stab by agents of genocide against the Benue people by blaming the victims.(agency)/SHARE THIS
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