David Umahi, the governor of Ebonyi State has asked Samuel Ortom, his Benue counterpart to establish the state’s own security outfit due to the rising spates of killings by Fulani herdsmen in the state.
Umahi stated this on Tuesday at the Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital 2, Abakaliki when he visited the victims of the Sunday killings in Ado local government area of Benue.
The victims are Izzi people carved into Benue by the military.
The governor said the perpetrators showed some form of satanism in the dastardly acts.
According to Umahi, Benue government exhibited the height of irresponsibility when it went on air on Tuesday and announced it didn’t know whether victims of the attacks were from Ebonyi or Benue states.
He said, “What I saw this afternoon is nothing but an act of wickedness and Satanism. I do not know for any reason why people should be raping two-year-old children, inflicting machete cuts on one-year-old little children, killing their mothers, killing their fathers. Is it for what reason?
“It is important that the people of Benue State form their own Ebube Agu to protect their own people instead of blaming Mr. President. Mr. President cannot be everywhere.”
