DAILY INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL captioned: "The serial killings in Plateau, Benue states", April 25th 2024 echoed the age long advice to the past president, Buhari and also president Tinubu to use their good offices as the Head of State and Commander in Chief of Nigeria Armed Forces to stop the madness and genocide by terrorists masquerading as herdsmen from the Sahel region of West Africa who have the nihilist agenda of ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion of the southern Kaduna and middle belt states but to no avail.
The
Editorial wrote inter alia:
"Tinubu-led
government should muster the political will to call for a holistic
investigation into the killings and the prosecution of all those involved. Any
herder, indeed any citizen, caught with AK-47 or any prohibited weapon must be
promptly arrested and prosecuted. The federal government must end the macabre
culture of complicit silence and appeasement of the gun-toting herdsmen, who
have ravaged the entire landscape of the country in recent years.
***Comment:
Nigerians
and Foreigners alike have been wondering why the immediate past president,
Buhari and his successor, president Tinubu never deemed it necessary to muster
the guts to order the security agencies to waste the rampaging terrorists
masquerading as herdsmen who have been mindlessly slaughtering people mainly
Christians in southern Kaduna and middle belt states and occupying their
ancestral homelands? Why are these wild animals treated as sacred cows, dreaded
by the armed security agents and pampered allegedly by the occupants of Aso
Villa Abuja. What is really the covert agenda of the occupants of Aso Villa
Abuja?
They
are unrelenting while the survived ones ran to makeshift refugee resettlements
and dying in droves even as the terrorists regularly invade the refugee
resettlements and slaughter them and rape women while the security agencies
pretend that they are powerless to waste the verminous creatures with human
body.
According
to the Constitution, the primary duty of government the world over is the
protection of lives and property. If that is the case all over the world, why
is it not practiced in Nigeria?
Polycarp
Onwubiko, political analyst, writes from Awka, Anambra State.
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