The Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to protect the democracy that brought him to power, by directing the police and other security agencies to respect the rule of law.“Impunity is dangerous and destructive. Its negative effects on people and institutions could be very far reaching. If unchecked, its unexpected consequences will consume all, including those deploying it as an instrument of power,” the governor warned.

He added that the police, acting on “directives from above” had also chased away workers of the state assembly who reported for work,” in flagrant disregard to a subsisting court order, adding: “This is unacceptable.”

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