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Saror Indicted over Ukum Crisis Benue Benue State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Emmanuel Udende, has said the political crisis in Ukum Local Government area during the March,2004 Councill polls could have been avoided if Senator Daniel Saror had heeded the advice of traditional rulers. Udende made the statement while testifying before the Justice Kazeem Alogba Judicial Commission of Inquiry probing political crises in Kwande and Ukum council areas. He said the traditional rulers had advised Saror at a meeting held in his house on March 22, to disarm the militia he had assembled for the elections. The commissioner alleged that the lawmaker accepted to dislodge the militia at the meeting but later reneged leading to perpetration of violence by the armed men on March 26, the eve of the elections. According to him, a report that the Senator was camping the militia at his Zaki-Biam residence and his village was made to the police who responded and arrested 14 members of the gang who he said have been arraigned before a Makurdi High Court. The witness submitted that Saror who was a member of the PDP left the party to the UNPP in search of a platform to contest the gubernatorial elections but lost, later moved ito the ANPP where he again settled for the same senatorial seat. He alleged that it was in the ANPP that Saror joined forces with Mr. Paul Unongo who he said is noted for political violence. The Commissioner urged the government to carry out a head count of all retired army personnel in Ukum and other places and to organise them into groups to be managed by the security department of the state government in order to be able to identify miscreants among them. He also called on the government to provide means of livelihood for the exservicemen in order to discourage them from being used by disgruntled politicians. Another witness, Mr. Benjamin Akulaga, who also testified, said his four houses and property valued at over four million naira were destroyed in Ukum on the eve of the council polls by gunmen allegedly stationed in the residence Saror. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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