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Buhari Is Responsible For The Insecurity In Nigeria – Ortom tells US, Begs For Intervention

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The governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has called on the American government and other international communities to hold the government of President Muhammadu Buhari responsible for the insecurity plaguing the country.

Ortom said this at the State Department, Washington DC while meeting with its officials.

He claimed that President Buhari and his government are after his life, citing the series of threats he has been receiving and the attempt made on his life in March last year.

He insisted that they should be held responsible if any harm should come to him.

He stated that he was at the State Department to present the traumatized Nigerian victims’ side of the story after discovering that wrong narratives were being circulated across the globe by the government of Buhari to shield itself from complicity.

Ortom urged the international community not to take the insecurity in Nigeria as a distant problem, stressing that the outbreak of war in any country will cause migration problems to America and Britain due to their friendly immigration policies.

He demanded that a special envoy be appointed to Nigeria to deal with the unrest, and ensure that international funding for IDPs gets to Benue State, the epicentre of the current violence as well as Plateau, Kaduna, Niger, Zamfara and other states affected by terrorists

Responding to Ortom’s appeal, the US State Department officials headed by the Under Secretary, Africa and the Middle East, Padgett Douglas said: “The US government was aware of random terrorism, weaponization of religion and importation of violence in Nigeria.”

He added that since the security of the political system was paramount to the US government, it has set up a conflict bureau to fund IDPs in Nigeria, but he would ensure that such funding does not go to the wrong channels while promising to make a case for the Benue IDPs and investigate other issues raised by Governor Ortom.

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