The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has temporarily suspended the operations of livestock guards, and the state para-military agency saddled with enforcing the state open grazing for two weeks to allow all herdsmen with livestock in the state to leave.
Ortom had disclosed this at the end of the state security council meeting on Tuesday, April 11 after more than 130 persons were brutally killed across the state within one week.
According to the governor, the suspension was to show a good fate to all those who claimed to have come into the state without knowing about the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of 2017 which is solely anti-grazing.
He then went on to plead with the security agencies to act fast on the matter to bring the unfortunate victims of the attack some form of justice.
