I’ll rather die than surrender Benue land to Fulanis – Ortom declares

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Tuesday, declared that he never allow Fulanis take over Benue land.

Ortom said he would rather die than surrender his land to the Fulani “who have made over a million homeless in his state.”

The governor spoke in Markudi, the state capital, while receiving in audience the Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors without Borders.

Ortom berated the Nigerian government for paying lip service to its fight against insecurity.

Ortom insisted that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has has refused to apprehend killer herders, despite having the capacity to arrest them.

He said, “Our people are dying, our women, mothers are being raped, our children can’t go to school, they are suffering.

“These criminals, they display themselves on social media, claiming they are here for an agenda to drive our people away and take over their land and also kill them.

“And they are here courtesy of Federal Government but for me, if they come, then I’m ready to die than to surrender my land to Fulani men. If God didn’t protect me, then I need no help from anybody.”