Leaders of the three main socio-cultural organizations in Benue State, under the auspices of the Mdzough U Tiv, MUT, Ochetoha K’Idoma, OKI and Omi Ny’Igede, ONI, have vowed to resist the Miyetti Allah’s plot to create its vigilante group in the State.
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The leaders maintained that a group whose members had allegedly unleashed mayhem in Benue State leading to the gruesome murder of thousands of the people as well as the displacement of close to two million farmers would never be allowed the leverage to establish a purported vigilante to be used as weapon for further annihilation of the people of the State.
In a statement issued weekend in Makurdi and jointly signed by their Chairman, Chief Iorbee Ihagh, the President General of MUT worldwide, AVM Tony Adokwu (retd.) President General, OKI and Dr. Comrade Ben Okpa, the President General of ONI, the leaders expressed outrage at the recent open threat by the leadership of Miyetti Allah to drag Governor Samuel Ortom to the International Criminal Court, ICC, at The Hague over the enforcement of the Benue grazing law.
Part of the statement read: “In their recent usual campaign of victimization and antagonization of Governor Ortom’s efforts toward ensuring peace and security of Benue people, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore openly threatened that they would drag Governor Ortom to the International Criminal Court of Justice at The Hague for what they claimed was abuse of their rights and seizure of 25,000 cows belonging to their members.
“We find such threats ridiculous and at the same time nauseating to say the least. The terrorist atrocities committed by the Miyetti Allah group against Benue people and elsewhere across the country are fresh in the minds of all good, spirited Nigerians and for the group to turn around to play the victim is a deliberate callous mischief to twist the narrative.
“In any case, as law abiding citizens, we as leaders of the socio-cultural groups in Benue State, hereby state categorically that the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore must be prepared to take all Benue people to The Hague, and not only Governor Ortom. We must emphasize that Governor Ortom as a leader we popularly elected, has our total mandate and we are fully in support of every lawful initiative by his administration to tackle security challenges to bring about enduring peace in the State”.
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