By Moses Ochonu
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has caused
Audu Maikori to be arrested for sending a tweet that relied on false
information about an attack that never occurred, a tweet for which he has since
apologized. Maikori has been a critic of the governor's handling of the Southern Kaduna killings.
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| *Gov Nasir El-Rufai |
El-Rufai's latest canard to defend his tyranny and
intolerance for critique is what he calls "a policy of consequence."
Very chic. The problem is that not a single one of the foreign herdsmen he says
are responsible for killing hundreds of Southern Kaduna people's have been
arrested for murder. Not a single one of them has faced this "policy of
consequences."
In fact instead of being arrested, El-Rufai rewarded
them with handsome payments to silence their guns. Yet Southern
Kaduna folks like Maikori who complain about their menace, even if
relying on unreliable information produced in the haze of crisis, are hounded
into detention. It's different strokes for different folks.
We have a situation now where the governor prioritizes
what he nebulously calls the offense of incitement over that of mass murder.
But even here, he is being disingenuous. Governor El-Rufai is the
inciter-in-chief in Kaduna Southern
Kaduna elders and church leaders of encouraging and profiting from
the murder of their own people! What could be more inciting than this
recklessly incendiary statement?
