… Demands Transparent Investigation
From Segun Amure, (The New Diplomat’s Abuja Bureau)
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday has ordered the police to carry out a transparent and thorough investigation into the circumstance that led to the attack on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, Saturday and other criminal activities in the state.
Buhari while condemning the incident said an attack on one Nigerian is an attack on all Nigerians.
He noted that the string of brutal attacks on individuals and communities in the state, with the latest one targeting the governor, was unacceptable.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu in Abuja.
Shehu in the statement said that President Buhari welcomed the dispatch of a high-level team of crack investigators to the state from the Police headquarters in Abuja, urging the officers to uncover who, or whatsoever, was behind the attacks and bring them to justice.
The statement reads: “In expressing his sympathies, and that of the government of the federation to Governor Ortom and all Benue indigenes, President Buhari said the unfortunate incident must not be politicized, reiterating that an attack on one Nigerian is an attack on all Nigerians.
“The President directed the Police to undertake a thorough investigation into the incident involving the governor and into all such incidents affecting individuals and communities in the state.”
“Let there be an open and transparent investigation and whoever is linked to it should be caught and be made to face the law,” the President directed.
