Benue State has concluded plans to honour the late navy officer, Gideon Orkar, who was executed over a failed coup by naming a 9.7 kilometre street after him.

The state Commissioner for Info, Tradition and Tourism, Mike Inalegwu, disclosed this whereas briefing journalists Tuesday after the state executives assembly on the Authorities Home in Makurdi.

Orkar was a Nigerian navy officer who staged a coup in opposition to the federal government of Common Ibrahim Babangida on April 22, 1990. Orkar and different coconspirators had been tried, convicted of treason and had been executed.

Inalegwu additionally mentioned Governor Samuel Ortom wouldn’t go away the state for the following six months after handing over energy to the Governor-elect, Hyacinth Alia.

 He intimated that the Contributory Pension Fund of the state had reached N6 billion and that fund managers could be established for the incoming administration to entry the cash for correct utilisation.

 The commissioner additional decried the incessant killings of rural dwellers by armed invaders as he condemned the newest killing of six folks together with a person, his spouse and their three-month-old child within the Adaka group of Makurdi LGA.

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