Wife Of The President Aisha Buhari Visits IDPs in Benue State

31-03-2016
The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Wednesday
donated assorted relief materials to Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs) in Benue.
Newsmen report that Mrs Buhari, who was in Benue to
empathise with the state government on the recent farmers/
herdsmen crisis, was represented by the wife of the Vice
President, Mrs Oludolapo Osinbajo.
Donating the materials at Nogowa Secondary School,
Wadata Camp, Makurdi, Mrs Buhari commiserated with the
bereaved families, saying that the government was
committed to their plight.
She said that the Federal Government understood what the
victims were passing through and assured them that
government would not abandon them at this point of their
sufferings.
Earlier in his remarks, Gov. Samuel Ortom appealed to the
Federal Government to tighten security at boarders to end
the continued influx of foreign herdsmen into the state.
Ortom explained that foreign herdsmen were behind the
incessant attacks on his people since 2011.
The Governor said that there was no land for grazing in the
state, explaining that all lands belong to farmers in the
state.

He said that 85 per cent of the state population were
farmers and occupied the little available land, adding that it
would be difficult to create a grazing reserve in the state.
He suggested that the herdsmen should rather embrace
ranches as it was being practiced in developed countries.
Newsmen report that Mrs Buhari donated rice, multivitamins
supplements, cooking oil, garri and tomatoes to the Benue
IDPs.