{"id":6628,"date":"2018-01-27T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2018-02-11T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T05:01:51","slug":"benue-gov-ortom-blasts-minister-of-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/benue-gov-ortom-blasts-minister-of-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKiller Herdsmen & cattle now enjoy same immunity as Presidents & Vice Presidents\u201d – Benue Gov Ortom blasts Minister of Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cKiller Herdsmen and cattle now enjoy same immunity as Presidents & Vice Presidents\u201d – Benue Gov Ortom blasts Minister of Defence<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cYou\u2019re dancing on the blood and graves of innocent pregnant women, children killed by herdsmen’ – Ortoms blasts Buhari’s Minister<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026says Buhari surrounded by selfish and incompetent people<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026Says herdsmen and cattle now enjoy immunity in Nigeria<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jan 27, 2018: Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, says the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by the President and Vice-President as provide by the constitution, appears to be applicable to herdsmen and their cattle now.<\/p>\n

Ortom said this when he reacted to the statement made by the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, who on Thursday January 25th, said that the anti-open grazing law was largely responsible for the herdsmen killings around the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people (herdsmen) are Nigerians. It is just like one going to block shoreline, does that make sense to you? These are the remote causes of the crisis,\u201d the minister had said.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the Minister’s comment, the Benue state governor said it is \u201can insult to the sensibility of Nigerians\u201d for the Minister to say such. He lamented that the federal government valued the lives of cattle more than humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard a statement credited to the Minister of Defense, saying the killings in Benue were as a result of the anti-open grazing law. I can\u2019t see him saying that kind of thing. If he said so, I would have asked him what he has done about Fulani herdsmen going about with AK47s. I will not surrender my land to foreigners. You can go and do that in your own state. It\u2019s sad that those who are supposed to be assisting the President have instead, turned round to misinform him, all for their selfish interests. As a state, we are ready to accommodate those who are genuine and come to our state legally, whether foreigners, to do business. But if you are in Benue, you must respect the laws of the land. I see the statement as an insult to the collective leadership and sensibility of the people of Nigeria, for a minister of defence to ask Nigerians to accommodate foreigners who illegally enter the country to cause problems. I am now beginning to see that they have given immunity that is the prerogative of President, Vice-President, governors and deputy governors to herdsmen, who kill and to their cattle. Cattle in Nigeria now have more immunity than humans. This is very unfortunate.\u201d he told newsmen in Makurdi, the state capital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cKiller Herdsmen and cattle now enjoy same immunity as Presidents & Vice Presidents\u201d – Benue Gov Ortom blasts Minister of Defence …\u201cYou\u2019re dancing on the blood and graves of innocent pregnant women, children killed by herdsmen’ – Ortoms blasts Buhari’s Minister \u2026says Buhari surrounded by selfish and incompetent people \u2026Says herdsmen and cattle now enjoy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cKiller Herdsmen & cattle now enjoysame immunity as Presidents & Vice Presidents\u201d - Benue Gov Ortom blasts Minister of Defence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cKiller Herdsmen & cattle now enjoysame immunity as Presidents & Vice Presidents\u201d - 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