Insecurity: Buhari must Sit up –Ortom

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sit up and stop the country from bleeding over the worsening security situation. 

Reacting to the abduction of over 300 students by terrorists in Kankara, Katsina state, Ortom described the development as a system of a failed state.

Ortom said this while addressing  journalists during his visit to the Correctional Centre in Makurdi. 

While considering how the GSS Kankara students were abducted in the President’s home country while he (Buhari) was on vacation, the governor noted that no part of the country was currently safe. 

 “The abduction of school students in Katsina State is disheartening. President Buhari must sit up; the service chiefs must sit up because the primary duty of government is to protect citizens and property.

“That brings to the fore what I have been saying that leadership has failed; that is why we are experiencing this. I have reiterated the dire need to reposition the country. We must sit down and dialogue as a people,” the governor said. 

The governor said that following the incident in Kankara in Katsina State, he had ordered the State Commissioner for Education, Dennis Ityavyar, to ensure the immediate closure of all boarding schools in the state to avert a repeat of such incident.

The students have now been freed by their captors and handed over to the Katsina state government.