Your
Excellency,
I chose
this medium of an open letter to reach out to you because of the existential
danger presently confronting the peoples of Edo State .
It is no longer news that Nigeria
has become an open killing field stalked by so-called Fulani ‘herdsmen’, a
roving band of terrorists acknowledged by the Global Terrorism Index as the
fourth most dangerous terrorist organisation in the world.
The crux
of the matter is that while every community in Nigeria is alive to this danger
posed by this band of terrorists and have openly rejected penetration projects
variously referred to as ‘cattle colonies’ and ‘ranches’ advanced by their
sponsors who currently control the levers of power at the centre, the governing
elite in Edo state has maintained felonious silence over their forceful
occupation of Edoland and murderous activities within. It is possible that the
silence is induced by honest ignorance of the dynamics of the activities of
these terrorists on your part and therefore requires some enlightenment by a
recourse to some aspects of our history.
*Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State |