{"id":36096,"date":"2020-10-20T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=36096"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:00:39","slug":"gov-ortom-wants-endsars-protest-to-continue-tells-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=36096","title":{"rendered":"Gov Ortom wants #EndSARS protest to continue, tells why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Samuel-Ortom.jpg\" alt=\"EFCC has become APC's 'strike squad', law court\u2014 Benue govt\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has called for the continuation of #EndSARS protest currently sweeping many states of the federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor said that \u201cthe protest should continue without violence until leaders correct decades of wrongs in Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke at the state Government House in Makurdi on Monday, insisting that it was necessary for the country to be restructured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told newsmen that as a son of an ex-policeman, he knew for a very long time the force had been suffering from poor funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/obaseki-orders-police-to-fish-out-suspected-killers-of-endsars-protester-in-edo\/\">police<\/a>&nbsp;should be well funded, trained and equipped so as to perform their constitutional duty of protecting lives and properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will join the protest if my people called on me to do so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor went further to explain that the ongoing protest was not only about #EndSARS alone but impunity occasioned by attacks and killings of harmless farmers by herdsmen without any visible effort by the Federal Government to bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has called for the continuation of #EndSARS protest currently sweeping many states of the federation. The governor said that \u201cthe protest should continue without violence until leaders correct decades of wrongs in Nigeria\u201d. 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