Federal Republic of Nigeria State House Abuja
APPEAL TO ACT BEFORE HERDSMEN DRAG NIGERIA INTO A CIVIL WAR
It is my honour and privilege to extend warm compliments of the New Year to Your Excellency on behalf of myself, the Government and good people of Benue State.
2. As a State, we welcome and appreciate the establishment of three Federal educational institutions in Benue State namely: Federal University of Health Sciences, Federal College of Education and a Federal Polytechnic.
3. We are also thankful for the various appointments given Benue sons and daughters. We expect more of such strategic projects and appointments more so given the support you have received from our Government and the people of the State. We acknowledge and appreciate the intervention which your Administration made as Bailout to States during the first recession, although Benue is yet to receive the second Tranche which you approved and referred to the Federal Ministry of Finance to verify and pay two y
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Benue State Deputy Governor, Benson Abounu, has advised Ondo, Oyo and other states experiencing herdsmen crisis in the country to consider the enactment of the Anti-Open Grazing Law of Benue State.
Oyo and Ondo states have been in the eye of the storm lately over security challenges and the moves to check the activities of killer herdsmen.
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State had said the state enacted an anti-open grazing law but said there were challenges in the implementation of the law. The governor added that the cooperation of the police and other federal security forces was crucial to enforcing the law enacted to stop frequent clashes between herdsmen and farmers.
One person has been killed and another badly injured after suspected armed bandits attacked a team of Benue State Livestock Guards and Agro Rangers of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Benue.