Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has called for the imposition of a state of emergency in Benue State, saying the Gov. Ortom had shown ineptitude and lack of capacity to handle the situation.
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Five days after the barbaric attacks in Zaki Biam in Benue State, which led to the death of over an alleged 52 persons, the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike on Thursday, called for the imposition of a state of emergency in Benue State.
Wike said declaration of a state of emergency in Benue had become necessary because the governor, Samuel Ortom, had shown “ineptitude and lack of capacity to handle the situation.
“You can’t have a governor watching helplessly as his people are being killed. What kind of governor is that. He has displayed sheer laziness and incapacity in the whole issue, and this is quite unfortunate,” he said.
While asserting that governors were not fully in charge of security in states, despite being called chief security officers (CSOs), Wike, however, said governors were supposed to have strategies, working with security agencies, on how to combat crime. “No excuse is acceptable for the high number of deaths in Benue”, he said.
According to online reports, about 52 persons, including women and children, were on Monday shot dead, with several other people sustaining various degrees of injury, after gunmen invaded Zaki Biam, in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue.
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