The Executive Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has expressed how worried he is concerning the rise in the population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), due to lack of security in the North.
Ortom said he is deprived of sleep when he remembers those in IDP camps who have been forced to flee their homes because of insurgency.
He added: “Even when I’m on top of my wife and I remember the people in the IDP camp…”
Those in the crowd added, “It goes flat” and Ortom smiled in agreement.
The governor stated this while reacting to Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume’s call for a state of emergency to be declared in Benue state.
Akume, a a former two term governor of Benue had in a press conference held Monday in Abuja castigated Governor Ortom for his outbursts over the worsening insecurity in the country and the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government to stem the tide.
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