Benue: FG’s complicity in herdsmen attacks has been my pain since 2015 – Ortom

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has accused the Federal Government of complicity in herdsmen attacks on citizens of the state, saying the wanton killings has been his pain since 2015.

He made the accusation Sunday, when he paid a visit to victims of recent herdsmen attacks at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp at Abagena.

Some of the hospitalised victims are receiving treatment at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), Makurdi.

TRACK news recalls that suspected herdsmen had unleashed an attack on the camp last Friday, killing and injuring some of the victims.

Among those who the governor consoled were an aged woman, Esther Num who suffered injury as a result of gun shot on her waist; a 14 year old Emberga Ukpoor had her hand chopped off and Terna Ikyaan, also sustained gun shot injury in the abdomen.

Others included a 14 year old Kwaghve Terkimbi, who had his ear chopped-off while Agber Ikyume, Regina Gbashaor and Eunice Iyua were inflicted with various degree of injuries.

Lamenting the situation, Ortom said, “This has been my pain, since 2015, I have cried out loud, insisting that the Federal Government is complicit on the issues of terrorism, raising Fulanis in Niger from Futa Jalon (Senegal), Cameroon, Mauritania and Libya and other parts of the world, to come to Nigeria and take it and make it their country