A retired Comptroller of Prisons, Chief Iorbee Ihagh, has referred to as on President Bola Tinubu to duplicate the continued navy operations in Zamfara in Benue State.
Ihagh, who can be the President Normal of Mdzough U Tiv Worldwide and the Chairman of three socio-cultural teams in Benue State – Mdzough U Tiv, Ochetoha Ok’Idoma and Omi Ny’Igede, chatting with our correspondent in Makurdi on Sunday, mentioned if that is completed, it can curtail the actions of bandits in some troubled areas within the state.
He applauded the Federal Authorities over the navy operations in Zamfara State, saying that the operations have succeeded in tackling the actions of terrorists and bandits within the nation.
Ihagh additionally lamented that Benue had skilled insecurity for greater than 10 years such {that a} day hardly passes by with out the bandits killing rural folks in a single space of the state or one other.
“The intervention by the navy which reportedly degraded the operational capability of the bandits was mentioned to have been ordered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to make sure the safeguarding of the lives and property of the Zamfara folks. We would like the president to duplicate such success in Benue.
“We’re making a passionate enchantment to Mr. President to present us safety in Benue. The president has completed effectively for us within the state as we are able to see in his good works (infrastructures). The federal government exist to supply social facilities and safety. Benue is the meals basket of the nation and as soon as we don’t farm, there may be sure to be starvation within the nation,” he mentioned.
Ihagh identified that Kwande, Agatu, Gwer West and Guma LGs amongst many others had been taken over by the bandits who drove the inhabitants from their ancestral properties, stressing the necessity for the federal authorities to take extra measures to revive normalcy within the affected space.
“We’re begging the federal authorities to ship away these bandits from Benue and different affected states of the nation in order that the folks can return to their properties and their age-long observe of agriculture. As it’s now, Nigeria is pregnant and might ship anytime if the insecurity just isn’t taken care of”, the group posited.