Ortom Urges FG To Check Illegal Entry Of Herdsmen Into Nigeria

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has again urged the Federal Government to check the illegal entry of foreign herdsmen into Nigeria.

He claimed that the illegal herdsmen attack Nigerians, especially farmers.

Ortom made the appeal at his visite to a victim of herders attack, Wanhena Cheku , whose left hand was cut off in the  attack on her farm at Mbagwem community in the Guma Local Government Area of the state; but now recuperating at the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi.

Benue State, described as the ‘food basket of the nation’ has witnessed repeated bloody attacks by herdsmen.

Ortom said it was wrong for foreign herders to gain free entry into the country and perpetrate atrocities at will.

He said the Federal Government needed to close the country’s borders to all foreign herders to mitigate continues cases of attacks on citizens.

Ortom, who was accompanied to the hospital by his wife, Eunice, regretted that Cheku was passing through pains for no crime of hers.

He, however, said that security operatives were on the trail of the herders, who attacked the woman.

On the possible closure of IDPs camps in Benue State, Ortom said that most IDPs had returned to farming because they would not continue to remain in the camps forever.

The governor promised to meet with the security chiefs in order to encourage the officers to be more proactive.