Real reason I was removed as Benue Police Commissioner – Fatai Owoseni
Recall that Owoseni was posted
However, in an interview with Sun newspaper, he said: “I was deployed to Benue in the heat of the farmers–herdsmen crisis and to the best of my ability, I discharged my responsibility within the ambit of the law. “I can tell you that I discharged my responsibility to the best of my ability. Someone will sit in Abuja and give you instruction, it is for you that is on the ground to know the implication of that instruction. Instructions that will lead to killings and disturbance in the state.
“While doing that, they can encounter people who are using the same land to farm. They fight over limited resources. But at a point in time, just as we do about everything in this country, every challenge is always given a religious, tribal and political connotation.
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