The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has advised the Senate and Nigerians to point the finger at President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for killings and pulverization of properties by Fulani herders in the state.
Ortom said this at a gathering with the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Security, which is in the state on a reality discovering mission on the assaults.
The governor blamed Muhammadu Buhari, Vice - President Yemi Osinbajo; the National Security Adviser, Maj.- Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.); and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris of overlooking a few notices on the looming assault on groups in Benue.
The governor educated the lawmakers that after getting data of the arranged assaults, he promptly composed a letter to Osinbajo, who was the Acting President, while Buhari was on medicinal excursion in London.
Ortom said all endeavors made to get the VP 's consideration through the letter flopped as he got no answer from Osinbajo.
Ortom said he additionally composed letters to Buhari after his arrival to Nigeria however got no reaction from him.
He said out of franticness, the Benue State Government went further to draw the consideration of Monguno in a different letter routed to the NSA, yet got no correspondence from him.
His words, "We kept in touch with the bad habit – president on the arranged assaults on parts of Benue by Fulani herdsmen, in light of the fact that the risk was wherever in the city, however he declined to answer.
"In any case, when Mr. President came back from the United Kingdom, I insinuated him through a letter. The archives are here.
"I kept in touch with him on the arranged assault by Fulani herdsmen in light of the fact that the dangers were in the city.
"On October 7 , 2017, I kept in touch with the Inspector-General of Police; I let him know of an arranged assault on our kin yet there was no reaction (from the Presidency).
"On October 27 , 2017, I advised him that these individuals were wanting to assault us, that we are well behaved, we have incapacitated our adolescents and we are looking unto security organizations, and that the best approach to do it was to capture those individuals who were actuating the herdsmen to battle us, and we knew they would come.
"I additionally composed the Senate President (Bukola Saraki), and the Speaker (House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara) on October 7. I additionally composed the National Security Adviser and the Director-General of the Department of State Services to hint them on the arranged assaults. At the point when there was no activity, I lined it up with an update on October 27 , 2017.
"This is extremely dismal. I know those individuals who are in charge of the killings. I blamed them and I have confirmations against them.
"On the off chance that I had purchased weapons and provided for my kin, would they have been murdered in the way they were executed? I incapacitated my kin. I've not purchased a solitary weapon, I'm a Christian. On the off chance that I purchased, I would say as much."
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