400 traditional stools vacant in Benue – Ortom’s adviser
The Special Adviser on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Benue State, Barrister Kenneth Achabo, has said that at least, 400 traditional stools are currently vacant in the state. Achabo said the stools needed to be replaced with new monarchs and that effort was being made to ensure the right people fit into […]
The Special Adviser on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Benue State, Barrister Kenneth Achabo, has said that at least, 400 traditional stools are currently vacant in the state.
Achabo said the stools needed to be replaced with new monarchs and that effort was being made to ensure the right people fit into the vacancies.
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He made the disclosure during the flag-off of this year’s cropping season and distribution of seeds to farmers in all 23 local government areas of the state.
“Over the years, we have 400 vacant traditional stools in the three senatorial zones of the state. We have started the process of filling the stools; we have finished with zone A, we will start with zone B and then Zone C,” he said.
Daily Trust reports that the Special Adviser had earlier last year lamented that people have been on acting capacity in some of the vacant stools since the deaths of the occupants while others were laced with either controversies or conflicts.