Samuel Ortom, the governor of Benue state has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to push for a review of the ECOWAS protocol for movement of persons, goods, and services within the sub-region.
He made the statement at Abuja while briefing the media. Ortom, however, said that the foreign herders were taking undue advantage of the protocol to fuel insecurity in Nigeria.
He said, “In neighboring countries like Ghana and Benin, people are properly profiled before they are allowed into the county. People coming into Nigeria have to be properly profiled before they are allowed in. It is there in the ECOWAS protocol, I have studied it, I have my lawyers to also study it.
“Most of the herdsmen killing our people are not even Nigerians, even the president himself said this during his visit to the United Arab Emirates.”