The Benue State House of Assembly has called on the Inspector General of Police (IG), Ibrahim Idris, to immediately effect the arrest of the leadership of the cattle breeders under the aegis of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore for treason and inciting publicity unrest in the state.


The Speaker of the assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange, gave the ruling after a debate on a motion of urgent public importance moved by the Majority Leader, Benjamin Adanyi, who drew the attention of the assemly to the uncomplimentary remarks made by the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore during a media conference.


Adanyi explained that their comments amounted to treasonable felony, saying it has become clear that the attack on Benue communities is not as a result of quest for grazing but an agitation to takeover the state.


The National President of the Association, Alhaji Abdullahi Bello. and Secretary, Mr. Saleh Alhassan, last Tuesday, addressed a world press conference in Abuja where they did not only kick against the Anti Open Grazing Law recently enacted in the state but vowed to mobilise their members nationwide to resist the implementation of the law.


The group also erroneously attributed the herdsmen-farmers crises in the state to the struggle for natural resources and laid claim to be the real inhabitants of the Benue valley.


Ikyange equally mandated the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, to lead a high-powered delegation comprising all the senators and members of the House of Representatives from the state, the Speaker of the state assembly and other prominent indigenes of the state to meet President Muhammadu Buhari to brief him on the grievances of the state as contained in the publication.


The assembly also condemned the spurious allegations and threats made by the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders, describing it as capable of breaching the peace in the state.


According to the Speaker, the assembly will support the state governor to fully implement the Open Grazing Prohibition Law, saying the law is aimed at protecting both farmers and herders contrary to the allegations of the leadership of the cattle breeders.


The assembly called on the people of the state to remain calm and law abiding in the face of this provocative outburst of the Fulani Cattle Breeders Association as government would not fold its arms and watch a Fulani association intimidate and harass them in any way.


All those who contributed to the debate included Mr. Ianna Jato, Mrs. Ngunan Addingi, Mr. Avine Agbom, Mr. Richard Ujege, Adam Okloho, among others, described the utterances by the Miyetti leadership as an attempt to re-write history with a deliberate attempt to mislead the public and insult the sensibilities of Benue people.

SOURCE


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/06/02/benue-assembly-orders-ig-to-arrest-fulani-herders-leadership/

Seconded. Their excesses are becoming too unbearable and daring.

With their audacious declaration yesterday, I'm beginning to suspect the association's leadership to be complicit in the blood sucking criminal herdsmen attacks.

The age of expansionism by violent conquest is over, they should be apprehended.

Interesting but don't know how far they will get. They can't exactly send them to jail for saying we will resist the law. Especially if the context is interpreted as political. The state should enforce the laws on books. Then go ahead let thme wail. You have popular mandate just need police to enforce laws.

DSS will be forming deaf and blind!

fulanmafia:
Seconded. Their excesses are becoming too unbearable and daring.

With their audacious declaration yesterday, I'm beginning to suspect the association's leadership to be complicit in the blood sucking criminal herdsmen attacks.

The age of expansionism by violent conquest is over, they should be apprehended.

It is now clear without doubt that you aren't a Fulani person


Afonjas, will all be exposed

HiddenShadow:


It is now clear without doubt that you aren't a Fulani person


Afonjas, will all be exposed

Why? Because I don't fit into your stereotype of an ignorant expansionist?

Not everyone is like you morally bankrupt iPods that blindly pay allegiance and defend the most sickening of crimes for petty tribal loyalty.

Arrest Booohari Brothers? That Will Be Imposible Nah

Pavore9:
DSS will be forming deaf and blind!

Exactly, they will always look the other way in matters like this

ortom want to tamper with bubu


when foolish people fight

the battle of who is more incompetent