The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has warned that he would use the rule of law to ensure that any Fulani herdsmen who dared to come to the state as a vigilante group were jailed.
Remember that the Fulani organization, Miyeitti Allah Kauta Hore, recently, at a press conference in Abuja, vowed to establish vigilante groups in all the state of the federation to combat insecurity.
Ortom responded to this through his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akasa, warned the Fulani organization not to come to his state, saying that the Fulani motives were to carry out their heinous activities to another level.
The herdsmen association, in reacting to the statement, threatened to drag the governor and Benue State to court unless the statement was retracted.
But Ortom, while speaking with journalists on Thursday, said, “No Fulani group will come to Benue State where I’m the governor; you people know that it is a lie, they cannot come.
“No room for vigilante group in whatever kind. When I confronted them, they said they would not use vigilante groups of Nigeria. That one will not operate here.
“We have our own vigilante that operates here; we have community policing in which we are recruiting now and livestock guard that takes care of herdsmen in active support with security men.
“So, no single vigilante group of Miyeitti Allah will come to Benue State to make any noise here. For us in Benue State, we believe in the rule of law and we will jail them.”
