As the protests across Nigeria escalates, Samuel Ortom, the governor of Benue State has called for the restructuring of the country.
The governor also declared his support for the action of the youths, said “the protest should continue without violence until leaders correct decades of wrongs in Nigeria”.
Addressing reporters at the Government House, Makurdi on Monday, Ortom stated that as a son of an ex-policeman, he had long observed that policemen are not properly funded.
“The police should be well funded, trained and equip to so as to perform their constitutional duty of protecting lives and properties,” said Ortom.
He added: ” I will join the protest if my people called on me to do so.”
According to Ortom, the protest was not only about end SARS alone, but impunity occasion by attacked and killings by herdsmen of harmless farmers without effort by the Federal Government to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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