Benue: Ortom Inaugurates Steering Cmte To Address Concerns Of Youths

A steering committee to plan and execute a youth summit that will chart the roadmap to address the concerns of young persons has been inaugurated by the Benue State Government, AllNews reports.

The State Governor, Samuel Loraer Ortom, who inaugurated the committee on Wednesday in Makurdi, the state capital, urged its chairman [Dave Ogbole] and members to uphold equity, fairness, and all-inclusiveness in the state assignment.

The recent agitation for inclusion by Nigerian youths is gradually attaining the desired attention as the Benue State Government has set the ball rolling by inaugurating a steering committee to organise an all-inclusive youth forum where their demands can be properly enumerated.

Governor Ortom acknowledged that young people constitute a larger percentage of Benue population and by implication, deserve not only to be carried along but should be part of the government.

“This event (inauguration of the Steering Committee of the Benue Youth Summit) marks the beginning of greater youth involvement in decision making and statecraft in our State.”
- Governor Samuel Ortom at the inauguration of the Benue Youth Summit Steering Committee, today. pic.twitter.com/j5a0YryIuh

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A minute silence was observed in honour of the civilians as well as security operatives who lost their lives in the cause of the #EndSARS national struggle.

Benue: EFCC nabs alleged suspect for job scam

In a piece of related news, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Makurdi Zonal Office, has arrested one Patience Simon Robert, an impostor who, while posing as an officer of the EFCC, allegedly defrauded many people with propositions of employment in the EFCC and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

Patience was arrested following a complaint by a victim whom he collected N1.5million from under the pretext of helping to secure jobs for his children in the EFCC.

The complainant equally revealed that the suspect tricked his younger brother into the part with the sum of N300,000 after promising to get his children employed in the NCS.

Investigation revealed that the suspect had severally been arrested for impersonation and fraud by the Nigeria Police and other agencies. It was discovered that ⁷ had been charged to a Magistrate Court in Minna, Niger State, for impersonation and obtaining money under false pretence.

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She allegedly obtained over N11million from several victims with propositions of job offers in various agencies while parading herself as a staff of the EFCC.

The suspect also defrauded another victim in Abuja to the tune of N4.5 million while posing as ‘Director of Civil Intelligence’ in EFCC.