{"id":8617,"date":"2018-03-10T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8617"},"modified":"2018-03-11T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T03:30:49","slug":"benue-herdsmen-attacks-obasanjo-visits-tomb-of-73-massacre-victims","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/benue-herdsmen-attacks-obasanjo-visits-tomb-of-73-massacre-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue herdsmen attacks: Obasanjo visits tomb of 73 massacre victims; backs anti-open grazing law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8646 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-6-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-6-600x323.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-6-600x323-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-6-600x323-100x54.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has thrown his weight behind the Benue state\u2019s anti-open grazing law.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo advised Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, not to give up on the anti-open grazing law, urging him to continue to work with people that have the state&#8217;s and the nation\u2019s interest at heart, the Independent reports.<\/p>\n<p>NigeriaNewsNetwork gathered the former president insisted that Nigeria needed to get it right for it to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo, who spoke at the graveside of the 73 persons that were massacred by suspected killer herdsmen on 1st January 2018, described the killings as \u201csenseless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo, who stopped over in Makurdi briefly on Saturday, March 10, after the meeting of the Zero Hunger Forum that was held in Maiduguri, also laid a wreath at the tomb of the victims of the massacre.<\/p>\n<p>He said any responsive government needed to get to the root of the killings and put a permanent stop to it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8648\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-Benue-3-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-Benue-3-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-Benue-3-600x450-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-Benue-3-600x450-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8649\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-4-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-4-600x323.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-4-600x323-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-4-600x323-100x54.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8650\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-7-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-7-600x323.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-7-600x323-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Obasanjo-visits-benue-graveyard-7-600x323-100x54.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has thrown his weight behind the Benue state\u2019s anti-open grazing law. Obasanjo advised Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, not to give up on the anti-open grazing law, urging him to continue to work with people that have the state&#8217;s and the nation\u2019s interest at heart, the Independent reports. 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