Benue Governor Samuel Ortom’s Special Adviser on Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Jerome Tor Shimbe, is dead. Tor Shimbe was reported to have died on Monday night after a brief illness three days after his 64 years birthday. Also, the Personal Assistant to the Governor on Special Duties, Famous Adejo, died last Thursday. Ortom, who expressed deep sadness over the deaths of his two aides, said he knew the late Torshimbe three decades ago.The governor described the deceased Special Adviser as an experienced and competent administrator who had added immense value to the government.Ortom described the deaths as very painful and prayed God to grant the bereaved families the fortitude to bear the irreparable losses and the deceased aides eternal rest.
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