The group asked the IGP to come clean on the alleged complicity of the police and its alleged negligence, which it said had worsened the herdsmen crisis. It also condemned the “less than salutary role of the IGP,” just as it accused the IGP of flouting the directive of President Buhari to relocate to Benue. In a related development, another group, Benue Arise Network, has raised the alarm of an alleged plan by the IGP to replace Benue indigenes in top positions in the police within the state with those who would do his bidding. “We demand a full explanation from the Nigerian Police on what the spokesman means by his assertion that the Governor of Benue State is a drowning man. “ We are aware that police officers guard Governor Samuel Ortom, if the police now refer to Governor Ortom as a drowning man, is the security of the Governor guaranteed?

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 11, 2018 05:15 UTC