All our vigilantes must carry weapons, Gov Ortoms approves arms-bearing guards for Benue

* Begins immediate recruitment of ex-servicemen and able-bodied young men  The Benue State Government, on Thursday, approved the establishment of vigilante groups to combat the high rate of insecurity in the state. Governor Samuel Ortom disclosed this when he briefed journalists on the outcome of the expanded stakeholders’ meeting held at the new banquet hall of the Government House. Addressing journalists on the resolutions of the meeting, Ortom, who said renewed attacks on the people by armed herdsmen had overstretched security agencies, noted that the state government had decided to enforce “the law to provide for the establishment of community

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