Governor Samuel Ortom
of Benue State has again appealed the federal government to check the illegal
entry of foreign herdsmen into Nigeria to stop them attacking farmers.
Ortom made the appeal
when he visited Wanhena Cheku, a victim
of herdsmen attack at the Federal Medical Centre at Apir in Makurdi.
Cheku’s left hand was
cut off in an attack on her farm at Mbagwem community in the Guma Local
Government Area of the state.
Ortom who said it was
wrong for foreign herders to gain free entry into the country and perpetrate
atrocities at will, said the federal government needed to close the country’s
borders to all foreign herders to mitigate growing cases of attacks on
citizens.
He, however, said that
security operatives were on the trail of the herders, who attacked the woman.
On the possible
closure of IDPs camps in Benue State, Ortom said that most IDPs had returned to
farming because they would not continue to remain in the camps forever.