Ortom’s rice farm set ablaze by Suspected herdsmen Wednesday, January 2, 2019 7:01 am By FocalPoint Reports The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has lost his rice farm located in Gbajimba in the Guma Local Government Area of the state to fire as suspected armed Fulani herdsmen, on New Year’s eve, stormed the rice farm and set it ablaze. FocalPoint Reports gathered from the Farm Manager, Kena Iordzua, as claiming that the farm was about 250 hectares of land, with the burnt rice estimated at over N100m. The farm manager was said to have informed that the herders came to the farm with a large number of cattle during the day and set it on fire at three different points. Iordzua said the inferno could not be put out due to the wild nature of the fire as a result of the harmattan. He added that security agents were mobilised to go after the herdsmen, who shot sporadically in the air as they retreated towards the Nasarawa State border. “The burnt portion of this rice farm is estim...