Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has taken the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to the cleaners.
To the governor, the number one police officer should resign and pick another job with Miyetti Allah.
This is because Idris’ utterances have given him away as somebody who has sympathy for Fulani herdsmen who have allegedly been killing farmers in some parts of the country.
The governor was reacting to a comment by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Jimoh Moshood, who described Ortom as a drowning man.
Ortom, who spoke in Makurdi, said: “It is painful that even the security personnel sent to protect lives and properties in the state are also being killed by the armed herdsmen.
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“I commiserate with the families of the police personnel who came here to protect us and have been killed. It is unfortunate. Policemen are dying and the Inspector General of Police is still playing politics with the issue.
“The IG should resign because he has failed woefully. He has the capacity. No one should try to intimidate me. You saw in a YouTube Fulani militia in a canoe going to Benue, saying they are coming to do the job that they have been paid for. You did not arrest them and you are calling me names.
“I am not a drowning man. I’m a man of my people and I am working with them. I am acting their script. I refuse to be intimidated. The IG should stop playing pranks with people’s lives. He has to resign . That man has no business being the IG. Since he has become the mouthpiece of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, he should resign his current position and go serve full time in his new job”.
The governor said it was rather sad and unfortunate that the police boss, saddled with the responsibility of protecting lives and property, can not contend with crises in the state and country rather, he is making mockery and dancing on the graves of those who have been killed.
“If the IGP will call me a drowning man and ask me to resign, I want to ask between me and the IGP who is to resign? Is it me who is doing the right thing by obeying the laws of the land or him who is doing the wrong thing by being unable to protect lives and properties of citizens?
“I think it is amazing that the police is exhibiting that level of ignorance and are insulting me and other Nigerians at the same time. And if the president will keep quiet for an IG of police who have no capacity to contend with the herdsmen crises in my state and country to continue in office, it is a shame”.
The governor called on the IG to stop playing politics with human lives but to go after the killers “especially that he knows who they are”.
