The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has disassociated himself
from the inscription on wheelbarrows bearing his name and alleging that he had
used same to empowered youths in the state.
Daily Trust reports that the social media had in the past few
days been awashed with pictures of wheelbarrows bearing "Gov. Ortom for
you" and suggestive that the governor distributed the carts to empower
youths of the state.
But, Ortom through his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase,
has denied the claims, saying rather that the consent of the governor was not
sought and that he did not give approval for anyone to inscribe his name on the
said wheelbarrows.
"Ortom is aware that the wheelbarrows in possession of the
State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) were recently donated to the state by the
National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons
(NCFRMI) for victims of crisis in parts of the state so he couldn't have
claimed credit for the gesture.
"The Ortom administration has numerous laudable empowerment
schemes for youths of Benue but the donation of wheelbarrows to the youths is
not one of such schemes," he said.
SEMA had last week distributed the wheelbarrows alongside
farming implements such as hoes and cutlasses to displaced farmers to go back
to their farms as planting season begins.
Meanwhile, the Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in the state, Bemgba Iortyom, has urged the government to also remove the
inscription of "Ortom for you" on the SDGs/MDGs project in Makurdi in
order to justify its sincerity of not taking credit for donors projects..
-Daily Trust
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