The tension forced Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti to call for a meeting at the Government House on Tuesday, January 16,with herdsmen and farmers, warning them not to turn the state to a war zone.
The governor ordered security operatives to fish out the killers of the herdsman saying there is no room for killings of anybody from any tribe in Ekiti. He said: “Recent steps taken by his administration to prevent violence between farmers and herdsmen do not give anybody license to unlawfully take human’s life. "I can’t accept anybody to be killed. If anybody killed anyone I will make sure you are killed by ensuring justice. I’m sad about the killing in Benue but we don’t want brutality in Ekiti. “I won’t accept any killing here, the only thing acceptable here is peace. I therefore plead with everybody to cooperate with us.” “I want peace in my state and everybody living here is from Ekiti whether you are Fulani, Tiv, Yoruba or anybody."
He said information at his disposal indicates that the herdsman died as a result of clash between Fulani herdsmen and some Tiv people. Fayose asked anyone coming into Ekiti to drop wherever they are coming from at the boundary, adding that no ethnic group is allowed to be killed in his state. The governor stated that lawlessness can't be condoned in his state. Meanwhile, President Mohammadu Buhari was urged by the Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria to also bring to book killers of Fulani herdsmen. Alhaji Baba Usman Ngeljarma, national secretary of the association made this known in a statement on Wednesday, January 17. He said the call was a response to the assurance given by President Buhari to arrest and punish perpetrators of the heinous Benue murders, Daily Trust reports.
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