By E.O. Eke
November 2016, after Fulani herdsmen attacked had innocent
villagers in Benue and Anambra states, I wrote an article entitled, Is Nigeria
This is the
worst of times, this is the best of times. This is a time to think, this is a
time to prepare.
You murder
peace when you kill justice. You end unity when you justify discrimination. You
lose the trust and confidence of people when you practice nepotism. You invite
violence when you make peacefully change impossible. You provoke violent
response when you brutalise people by responding to peaceful protest with
disproportionate force. These are natural imperatives which hold constant as
the law of gravity.
A man who takes a child's toy and raises his hand above his head will bring it down when fatigue of the raised hand sets in. The wise child will just sit down and wait for the hand that took the toy to come down.
A man who takes a child's toy and raises his hand above his head will bring it down when fatigue of the raised hand sets in. The wise child will just sit down and wait for the hand that took the toy to come down.
The lamentation
by Benue and Enugu
My
sympathy, empathy and thoughts are with the victims they have failed and
continue to fail by their lack of leadership in this dark hour.
Their
apparent helplessness in the face of the law, should give insight into what
they know about the forces and power behind those who oppress and dispose their
people of their ancestral land. Never in history have a people been so docile
in the face of existential threat.
These are
chief executives of states who collect millions of Naira in what is called Security
Votes playing helplessness in the face of overt aggression against their
people, which has resulted in loss of lives and unlawful occupation of their
lands.
One wonders why the governor of Ekiti State can respond and governors of Benue and Enugu
The Fulani
land-grab in Benue and Enugu
No man may
do whatever injures another man in the exercise of his natural right, the
French said in their declaration of the rights of man. That right includes the
right to survive.
That this
overt aggression, injustice and crime by Fulani herdsmen is being aided to
succeed by the governors and the same security agencies whose duty it is to
give security to the rights of the disposed is puzzling.
We are
witnessing in Nigeria
This is a
serious abuse of power which should worry all those who know the colour and
symptoms of tyranny. Is Nigeria
What is the true intention of President Muhammadu Buhari for Nigeria
Why has
president Buhari refused to do the right thing by ordering the disarming of
Fulani herdsmen?
Who are
those behind this war against peaceful people living in rural communities?
No nation
with right thinking people should be silent when the wicked are in power.
The
continuation of the war against Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen has compelled me
to ask the questions below:
How many
more people need to die before Buhari realises that he is the president of all
Nigerians and not just of Fulanis and Muslims?
How can we
live in country, where armed Fulani herdsmen supported by the cattle breeders
association are at liberty to kill those who protest the grazing of cows in the
farms?
How can a
county tolerate the systematic ethnic cleansing of citizens to create grazing
grounds for cows?
Why is
Buhari, the army and police keeping quiet?
Are Fulanis
fighting to conquer Nigeria
*Mr.
Eke is a commentator on public issues (eoeke@aol.com)
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