Benue State Government has instituted a case
against Miyetti Allah Kauttal Hore and its leadership over the
continuous killing of many people in the state. The state
governor, Samuel Ortom, who disclosed this yesterday in an interview
with newsmen in Makurdi, said the case will cover the 73 persons first
killed by herdsmen in January this year.
According to him, the
case which is going to come up this Thursday will only be one among many
other cases the state will institute against the killer herdsmen and
the Fulani socio-cultural group.
The governor reiterated his call
for arrest of leaders of Miyetti Allah whom he accused of being behind
the killings in the state.
“These people had, after our ranching
law was signed, addressed a press conference and said they would
mobilise their kinsmen to attack Benue and true to their words they
started attacking Benue.
“I have severally called for their arrest
but they are still walking the streets freely but I still insist that
they should be arrested,” he stressed.
Speaking on the ban placed
by the National Economic Council on open grazing in Benue, Taraba,
Plateau, Kaduna etc, Ortom described it as welcome decision.
He
stated that the state has been vindicated by the NEC, which had last
week in their meeting, banned open grazing and recommended ranching in
some states, including Benue.
He said Benue was gradually winning the
hearts of Nigerians in support of open grazing prohibition and ranches
establishment for livestock.