Ranching law not responsible for current killings, Ortom insists
Ranching law not responsible for current killings, Ortom insists Governor Samuel Ortom has insisted that the recent killings in Benue state were not as a result of the ranching law signed last year. According to the governor, the crisis claimed nearly 2,000 lives before the making of the law last year, adding that the attacks have continued across the country where there is no grazing law in place. Governor Ortom says there is no going back on the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law. The governor who made his stance known via a statement sent to National Focusnews by his spokesman, Terver Akase, noted that there are wrong impressions being created in some quarters that the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law is the cause of the recent spate of violence, killings and occupation of some communities in the state by armed herdsmen. Part of the statement read: “Those who claim that the law is the reason for the killings need to be remind