{"id":103616,"date":"2023-03-14T02:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103616"},"modified":"2023-03-14T02:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:28:11","slug":"herdsmen-killed-5138-persons-in-eight-years-under-gov-ortom-sema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/herdsmen-killed-5138-persons-in-eight-years-under-gov-ortom-sema\/","title":{"rendered":"Herdsmen Killed 5,138 Persons \u00a0in Eight Years Under Gov Ortom \u2013 SEMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency and Management Agency, Dr. Emmanuel Shior, on Monday, revealed suspected herdsmen killed \u00a05,138 persons in Benue State under the eight years of \u00a0Governor Samuel Ortom\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed this while speaking with newsmen on the humanitarian situation in the state since the assumption of office of the Ortom-led administration about eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, 18 of out of \u00a0the 23 local government areas of the state were attacked by suspected armed herders with several properties destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were the \u00a0breakdown of deaths recorded since assumption of office of Governor Ortom in 2015. In 2015, 1,177 deaths were recorded; 2016, 809 deaths; 2017, 43 deaths were recorded; in 2018, 440 people were recorded killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, \u00a0174 deaths were recorded in 2019, 88 in 2020 while 2,131 deaths were recorded in 2021, 172 deaths were recorded in 2022 and from January, 2023 till date, 104 deaths have been recorded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, in all, the total deaths since 2015 till date is 5,138,\u201d Shior said.<\/p>\n<p>The SEMA boss lamented \u00a0that there had been renewed attacks in some local government areas of the state shortly after the Presidential and National Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>Shior said, \u201cThere was more influx of herders since the presidential election because Ortom lost his senatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>The SEMA boss said the incessant attacks from previous government informed Ortom administration to enact the anti-open grazing law but regretted that both the Federal Government and security agencies who should have supported the state government to enforce to the law have refused to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state government also came out with \u00a0livestock guards and Community Volunteers Guards to ensure protection of lives and property, with all these measures, there is no end in sight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While decrying the non-challant attitude of the President Muhammadu Buhari led APC government towards the plights of Benue people in the hands of armed herders, Shior appealed to the incoming president to work towards ending the insecurity in the state, saying, \u201cBenue has been voting massively for the APC\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency and Management Agency, Dr. Emmanuel Shior, on Monday, revealed suspected herdsmen killed \u00a05,138 persons in Benue State under the eight years of \u00a0Governor Samuel&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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