Governor Samuel Ortom has called on the Federal Government to check the incessant killings and kidnappings across the country.
The Benue state Governor urged the government to take drastic actions against bandits just as they had done to Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu.
Governor Ortom stated this while briefing newsmen in the wake of the recent adbuction of the wife of the Benue state Commissioner for Land and Survey, Bernard Unenge.
He assured members of the public that all hands are on the deck to rescue her as both conventional security and local vigilantes groups have been mobilized for search and rescue.
“We are working together with the security agencies. You don’t just review security matters sometimes because you will be exposing the victim,” Governor Ortom said.
“Throughout yesterday night and today, my security adviser is here and we are working with some conventional and unconventional security, they will be released.”
According to an aide to the Commissioner, the abductors have contacted the family and demanded N50m as ransom.
In a related incident that occured last week, gunmen had attempted to assassinate Governor Ortom’s media aide on his way back from his hometown in Benue state
