[NEWS] ORTOM ON TARABA KILLING

GOVERNOR SAMUEL ORTOM OF BENUE HAS URGED SECURITY AGENCIES IN TARABA TO FISH OUT THE KILLERS OF DAVID TANKO OF STAINT PETER’S CATHOLIC PARISH, AMADU IN TARABA STATE.

ORTOM, IN A STATEMENT ISSUED ON FRIDAY BY HIS CHIEF PRESS SECRETARY, TERVER AKASE, AND MADE AVAILABLE TO THE JOURNALISTS IN MAKURDI, DESCRIBED THE INCIDENT AS SHOCKING, PAINFUL AND UNFORTUNATE.

THE GOVERNOR CONDEMNED THE KILLING OF THE CLERGY MAN AND CHARGED THE SECURITY OPERATIVES TO DEPLORE ALL INSTRUMENTS WITHIN THEIR DISPOSAL TO APPREHEND THE CULPRITS AND BRING THEM TO BOOK.

REPORTS HAS IT THAT THE PRIEST WAS KILLED BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS ON THURSDAY IN TARABA, WHILE HIS BODY AND HIS CAR WERE SET ABLAZE.

ORTOM COMMISERATED WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF TARABA STATE, PARTICULARLY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, OVER THE SAD INCIDENT.