Insecurity: The North will no longer tolerate violent groups-Benue Gov. Ortom

Protesters at the Benue Peoples House

 MARKURDI- Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom today in Markurdi declared that the Northern region will no longer tolerate any extremist group that threatens the peace of the region.
The Governor made the statement while addressing protesters led by a civil rights organisation, Conference of Minority Tribes at the Benue Peoples House.
The governor visibly disturbed assured the people of government’s gommitment to the protection of lives and property of the citizenry.
On the unrelenting and brazen attack from the Fulani herdsmen. Ortom said the issue is being addressed and that security has been beefed up to forestall future attack.
Earlier, in his address, the leader of the group, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi accused the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Shiite Islamic sect of instigating the current wave of killings in the state.
“The on-going ethnic cleansing has been mischievously labelled Fulani-Agatu crisis under circumstances that are at best efforts to desensitize the national consciousness to the enormity of the scale on which Benue state people are being wiped-out on a daily basis.” Okpokwu said.
“Individuals fingered in the Shiite crisis and those threatening the state as clearly seen in the published videos must be arrested and prosecuted. Government must then come out with a definite policy to curtail any form of extremism.” He concluded