“If I said anything that was offensive to the families, I ask for their forgiveness,” he said.
“I earlier said only two soldiers were involved based on the information available to me at that time.”
He also apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari and the chief of army staff.
Ortom made the apology at the burial of the slain military personnel at the Military Cemetery in Wurukum area of Makurdi, the Benue State capital.
The bodies of the 12 military personnel including one Captain Adeolu Adedayo and 11 soldiers were interred in the presence of the Governor, Commander of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), Major General Adeyemi Yekini, the Commanding Officer, 72 Battalion, other military personnel as well as family members of the deceased soldiers.
Why The Southeast Governorsâ New Security Outfit (âebubeaguâ) Is Suspicious And Inoperable
By International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law
The Outfit Is Suspicious
Intersociety is strongly suspicious of the panicky and hurried announcement of the new security outfit by the Southeast Governors Forum. Coming when all hopes have been lost from state actor angles, forcing most citizens of the Region to place their hopes, expectations and solutions on the table of non state actors; we are very surprised to hear the sudden announcement.
Intersociety also doubts the sincerity and genuineness of the promoters of the new security outfit. It is doubtful, too, whether critical indigenous stakeholders and other interest groups were duly consulted and carried along. The new outfit is most likely a baptism name given to the 2019 illegitimate and unpopular “Community Policing” arrangement by the same Southeast Governors during which all the security chiefs that
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John Charles, Makurdi
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The remains of the twelve soldiers killed by local bandits at Bonta Village in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State last week were on Monday committed to mother earth at the Military Cemetery, Wurukum in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.
Eleven soldiers and one officer, Captain Adeolu Adebayo were killed while on a peace mission to the troubled Bonta Village in Benue State on Easter Monday.
In his oration, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom condoled with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the Chief of Army Staff over the death of twelve military personnel.
12 slain soldiers: Ortom condoles with Buhari, apologises to families of deceased 12 slain soldiers: Ortom condoles with Buhari, apologises to families of deceased
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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, condoled with President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief of Army Staff over the death of 12 military personnel killed at Bonta community of the state, on Easter Monday.
In his oration, the governor also apologised to families of the slain soldiers for saying that only two soldiers were missing in the heat of the crisis.
The governor said that he made the statement based on information made available to him.
It will be recalled that 12 soldiers among them a Captain were killed at Bonta community in Konshisha Local Government Area of the state last Monday.
Intersociety, Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria
Massacring On The Ground Of Religion
The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) is deeply pained and saddened by indiscriminate massacring of defenseless civilians of Christian Faith by Nigerian Army. This, the Army now does with reckless abandon and uttermost impunity; to the extent that in the past ten months surveyed, or from July 2020 to first week of April 2021, 350 defenseless Christian civilians, if not more, have been massacred by the Army in its peacetime internal security operations (non war situations). The most disheartening of it all is that the defenseless victims, slain on the grounds of their religion and ethnicity, were massacred by soldiers in revenge for loss of their colleagues. That is to say that ‘when criminal citizens attack and kill soldiers, the Army turns around and massacres defenseless civilians, especially Christian civilians in revenge and labels the slain victims as “hoodlum