BY Adekunle Aliyu and Peter Duru MAKURDI – GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom has raised the alarm over alleged plot by suspected herdsmen in the West African sub-region to invade Benue State to prevent the implementation of the anti-open grazing law this came as the Ekiti State High Court has sentenced a herdsman, Ali Haruna, to two years imprisonment for destroying crops worth N1.5 million in the farm.

The Benue Stat governor said yesterday at the funeral service for Mama Atese Rebecca Terkpe at the NKST Church, Taraku in Gwer local government area of the state: “I received security reports that Fulani herdsmen from across the West African sub-region are planning to invade Benue to stop the implementation of the anti-gazing law in the state. “I call on the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, to organize prayers and fasting for divine intervention on the matter because we need peace in our state.” Ortom described the anti-open grazing law as the best solution to the incessant clashes between farmers and herders in the state and urged the people of Benue to support its implementation.

Gov Samuel Ortom He maintained that the new law had come to stay, assuring that his government would ensure its implementation at the end of the window period allowed herders in the state to build ranches. He appealed to the people to shun communal violence over land and resort to dialogue in the resolution of disputes, adding that lives and property lost during such crisis could not be replaced.

However the An Ekiti State High Court has sentenced a herdsman, Ali Haruna, to two years imprisonment for destroying crops worth N1.5 million in the farm. The state Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, held that the prosecution had proved the case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt setting aside the appeal filed against the judgment of the Chief Magistrate’s Court. Haruna had earlier been sentenced to two years jail by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court presided over by Mr Idowu Ayenimo on a two-count charge of malicious damage preferred against him.

Ayenimo sentenced Haruna to two years imprisonment on count one and two years’ imprisonment for count two which are to run concurrently. The herdsman took his cows to the farm owned by one Abdullahi Yaho destroying crops therein.

The prosecution called five witnesses during the course of the trial at the lower court. Dissatisfied with the verdict of the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Haruna through his counsel, Mr Chris Omokhafe, filed an appeal urging the High Court to set aside the conviction on grounds that it must be consistent and that the appellant was not found with any destructive weapon. Omokhafe and prosecution counsel, Gbemiga Adaramola, frontloaded all records and adopted their written addresses.


Affirming the judgment of the Chief Magistrate’s Court, JusticeDaramola said: “There is no iota of doubt at all, the prosecution proved the charge against the appellant beyond reasonable doubt. “I see no reason whatsoever to disturb the findings of the trial court; this appeal is totally devoid of merit and is hereby dismissed accordingly.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/west-africa-herdsmen-plotting-invade-benue-stop-anti-grazing-law-ortom/

Gov Ortom you have failed your , State, Party, God and humanity

You are using this security issue to divert peoples attention

Because they know your anti-grazing law is nothing but mere hot air and nothing else..

Make a scapegoat out of a few herdsmen and they will know how far...

But of course you can't.... You don't have the liver to confront your Fulani lords who daily murder and dispose your people of their land and possession..

Continue crying oh.

Failed governor..

My Lord,can't this man be more useful to Benue state than creating fear in them,what is west Africa Herdsmen again?Beside 2yrs imprisonment is it enough for the destruction of #1.5m
crops.sighs

LORD HAVE ON THE PEOPLE OF BENUE

sarrki:
Gov Ortom you have failed your , State, Party, God and humanity

You are using this security issue to divert peoples attention

buhari and his apc scallywags re all failures


This tinubu boy sef

petrov10:
buhari and his apc scallywags re all failures


This tinubu boy sef

How is Nnamdi the great criminal of all time ?

The clownish leader was at it again..

As for

sarrki:
Gov Ortom you have failed your , State, Party, God and humanity

You are using this security issue to divert peoples attention

Same way you failed Nigeria youths by selling your soul to Buhari

ajepako:
Because they know your anti-grazing law is nothing but mere hot air and nothing else..

Make a scapegoat out of a few herdsmen and they will know how far...

But of course you can't.... You don't have the liver to confront your Fulani lords who daily murder and dispose your people of their land and possession..

Continue crying oh.

Failed governor..

exactly

sarrki:



How is Nnamdi the great criminal of all time ?

how are your fellow zombies

Last time I heard you had split personality disorder "schizophrenia"

And of course you know Namdi kanu is bigger than everybody in ur fadas house.

Talk shit about kanu, and I will stuff shit down your lean, poverty stricken BMC throat

Seems you have forgotten my moniker, look am well again.

petrov10:
buhari and his apc scallywags re all failures


This tinubu boy sef

Accept the loss na. Sebi election don finish na

Let's move on . abi must we be on same page

checkolatunji:


Accept the loss na. Sebi election don finish na

Let's move on . abi must we be on same page

wati concern me and you? Abeg face front before train jam you o


My hand nor dey

petrov10:
wati concern me and you? Abeg face front before train jam you o


My hand nor dey

You no dey fear abi?

You gat respect for your seniors?

Make I no vex oooo

Stupid Ortom that can't call out Fulani herdsmen anf instead blaming West African Herdsmen. Ortom is useless

Evidence of a failed country

Apc governors and their earthly minions are the worst and lowlest vermin to crawl on earth
You agree with me that fayose should take over benue state click share.
Omenka sarrki the shameles clown always dancing unclad in the maket square madridguy.
lf you want atom to continue rulling benue state click like
if you want fayose to rule over benue state so as to teach otom and omenka how to rule click share

Where is the diabolically shameless clown from Benue... the so called omeka....this is not about Biafra, but your beloved benue

Fallacy.

Redoil:
Apc governors and their earthly minions are the worst and lowlest vermin to crawl on earth
You agree with me that fayose should take over benue state click share.
Omenka sarrki madridguy

Redoil:
Apc governors and their earthly minions are the worst and lowlest vermin to crawl on earth
You agree with me that fayose should take over benue state click share.
Omenka sarrki madridguy

Body temperature needs to be checked for high fever in this kind of situation

Good advice

sarrki:



Body temperature needs to be checked for high fever in this kind of situation

Goat of a governor!

Sarik, madridguy and their zombie crew trying hard to derail the thread!

"organize prayer and fasting" see mumu.

Benue people, use your heads, get massive amount of weapons and organize yourselves into militia/vigilante groups before Fulani terrorists send you people into extinction within two years. You have an obviously useless man as a governor who is afraid of his Fulani masters and Fulani president. Defend yourselves or they will kill you and take your lands, I repeat, they will kill you and râpe your women then take your lands. A word is enough for the wise

Fasting to prevent bloodshed ?

What kind of useless leader is this ?

I really don't understand Nigeria again. how can one ethnic group cause so much unrest and nothing is being done about them? all I see is a systematic attempt at genocide. did I say attempt? scratch that.. its already ongoing.

There WAS a country.

SMH!!! May it not be well with Lugard and that her girlfriend, the fulanis are more united with their kith and kins in other West African countries than they are with other Nigerians especially the Southern part.

One Nigeria is a waste of time.

This governors of nowadays are the most stupid set of governors ever ruleth, imagine a governor exposing security report in church and calling out CAN to help! Pathetic, why not handover to CAN? Always using their religion to garner sympathy. My God expose and humiliate anyone that's using religious, ethnicity and race to deceive and cause disunity among human and our humanity

The mods here don't want everyone to see this news, why did they close the thread and added another link from another thread instead of bringing the other one to front page

sarrki:



How is Nnamdi the great criminal of all time ?

And Prophet Muhammad the greatest criminal and child rapist ever liveth

Nawa Oo... I don taya for this zoo oh.

We can sabi go spiritual on something practical.. Mtcheew

I have a question. Is CAN now collecting the security vote of Benue State? Govornor please wake up and read the terms and conditions of being a Governor. Imagine a state enduring this manas a Governor for the next two years.