The Benue Youth Forum, BYF has actually admired Governor Samuel Ortom over his current discuss modified Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law, 2017.

DAILY POST reports that the governor, during an interview with Arise television on Friday, stated the law which was recently changed with stiffer penalties has actually recorded successes in the fight against insecurity in the state.

According to the brand-new law, owners of animals taken within the state will pay the fines of N50,000, N10,000, N5,000 and N1,000, respectively, per cow, goat, bird and sheep or poultry for violating the law as changed.

Reacting to Ortom’s interview, the Benue Youths, in a declaration released and provided to DAILY POST on Saturday by its president, Terrence Kuanum, stated the guv was right in all his exposition during the interview.

The statement checks out, “The Governor was right when he stated the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of Benue State has been successfully enforced with terrific accomplishments taped. It is true as the Governor mentioned that the wave of armed Fulani ranchers attacks has lowered with just a few cases of offenses of the law still being witnessed in the border communities.

“It is definitely right that President Muhammadu Buhari is not prepared to solve security problems in the country, otherwise why would he be demanding reopening livestock routes when the 3 regions in the nation have banned open grazing? It is a private assistance from him to the altracious killings by the armed Fulani ranchers”.

According to the group, Ortom spoke the minds of the majority of Nigerians especially the Benue individuals when he said that the day President Buhari chooses to end the attacks on innocent individuals by suspected herdsmen, the threat would become a thing of the past.

The group prompted President Muhammadu Buhari “to come below his high ego horse and listen to vital stakeholders like Governor Ortom who have actually been offering feasible solutions for repairing security, economy and other vital issues to move the nation forward.

“Lastly, we prompt the Buhari administration and its representatives to focus on their mandate of offering management to ease the suffering of individuals and desist from damning and castigating true nationalists and patriots like Governor Samuel Ortom.

“The President’s poor handling of the economy has made Nigerians starving and poor, with a high rate of joblessness and an incredible financial obligation profile. Absolutely nothing is working and we people of this nation can not await the expiration of an insensitive administration of the Buhari led Federal Government prior to we raise our voices”.