Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has urged the people of the state to obtain dane gun licences from local government areas for self-defence.
Ortom spoke at an interdenominational church service on Sunday at the Chapel of Grace in Government House, Makurdi to round up a seven-day prayer and fasting programme for peace in the state.
He said, “I’ll no longer announce the deaths of those killed by Fulani herdsmen, rise up and defend yourselves with weapons not prohibited by law, bows and arrows, spears and knives. Get a licence for dane guns from local government Chairmen and use them to defend yourselves.’’
The governor added that as long as he remained within God’s circle no weapon fashioned against him would prosper.
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“God assured me some time back that as long as I lived within the circle of his presence, no weapon fashioned against me shall prosper,” he said.
The State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev Akpen Leva, assured the governor of the support of the Church to secure the lives of the people and for always rising up in their defence.
The CAN chairman commended the Southern governors on their decision to prohibit open grazing in their states stressing that it was the right thing to do.
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