Chief Titus Zam, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Business and Rules and the senator representing Benue North West Senatorial Zone, has reassured his supporters that President Bola Tinubu will address the farmers-herders skirmishes across the nation.
Speaking on Saturday in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State, during an interactive session with Gwer West Local Government Area residents, he revealed that Tinubu and the service chiefs have mobilised security personnel to address insecurity, particularly against farmers, to allow them to return to their farmlands.
When discussing the ongoing attacks by herdsmen on Ityoshin settlements in Gwer West during the previous political era, Zam labelled some of the attacks as political.
Out of the 15 council wards in Gwer West, 13 are said to be occupied by armed herdsmen who are grazing on farmlands after torching the homes of locals, according to information obtained by OBASANJO NEWS24.
He claimed that after bringing up the deteriorating security situation during the service chiefs’ screening, they gave him the assurance that it would pass in due course.
He said that a new minister of works has been appointed, and he has presented the issue to him regarding the complete collapse of the Makurdi-Naka-Adoka federal highway on which the contractor has halted construction.
He referred to Senator George Akume, the SGF, as his boss and said that he will continue to collaborate with him.
I’ve been with Senator Akume for more than 20 years, and he made me a senator. I can’t leave him, he remarked.
