Coalition of groups under the eagis of Tiv Professionals Group , has expressed hope that the Special Investigation Task Force sent to Benue State, to investigate the assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom will not be a cover up, but do a thorough and transparent inquiry that will uncover the perpetrators of the dastardly act and bring them to book.
Stressing that Nigerians and Benue Citizens irrespective of tribe, religion and political affiliation should close ranks as brotherhood to condemn in strongest terms, the assassination attempt on the Governor. He further recount that even the immediate past Governor, Dr Gabriel Suswam (now a serving Senator , representing Benue North-East Senatorial District, was also ambush by Fulani herdsmen on March 11, 2014, at Tse Akanyi , where he went with security chiefs to assess the damage caused by the herdsmen in Guma Local Government Area, and in a gun battle with the herders, several people were killed but he also escaped unhurt.
“The Governor has repeatedly drawn the attention to the threat on his life and the insecurity in the Benue valley, after he sign into Law the 2017 Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law, where he was openly and repeatedly threatened by Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore whose national leaders had warned that blood would flow if the law was not repealed, but all these fell on deaf ears”