By Perry Brimah, Dr.
The account of the massacre given by the governor ofBenue state was harrowing. The raiders came
in typical style and killed at will, men, women and children. They set fire to
homes and farms, burning flesh, wood and brick alike. This time it was Governor
Ortom's very own village. These terrorists do not discriminate one farming
village from the other. The same way they raid and set farming villages ablaze
in Borno is the same way they light them up and fill the paths with blood in
Benue, Enugu
and Ekiti.
The account of the massacre given by the governor of
*President Buhari |
Their enemy is clear: the farmers and their farms.
A weeping governor Ortom narrated how they burned hectares of rice farms. It
does not take a rocket scientist to get what's happening here or what was
happening in Borno; with the insurgent and not political Boko Haram, that is.
Chief of Internal Security, Buratai Agrees They Are Boko Haram
Dare I say, to our relief the Nigerian 'chief of global security,' Lieutenant General T. Y. Buratai has finally admitted that these men ravaging the middle belt and south of Nigeria are the same 'ol Boko Haram. It took a lot of convincing for the man Buhari has put in charge ofNigeria 's
internal security to admit this feature of the spread of terror that we have
long wailed about.
The target is the farmers. Dislodged from the Sambisa forest, these enemies of farmers have spread wide in the hinterland and gone deeper than before. They do not attack towns. They do not attack senators and governors. Their enemy is the farmer. Their need can only be the land.
Chief of Internal Security, Buratai Agrees They Are Boko Haram
Dare I say, to our relief the Nigerian 'chief of global security,' Lieutenant General T. Y. Buratai has finally admitted that these men ravaging the middle belt and south of Nigeria are the same 'ol Boko Haram. It took a lot of convincing for the man Buhari has put in charge of
The target is the farmers. Dislodged from the Sambisa forest, these enemies of farmers have spread wide in the hinterland and gone deeper than before. They do not attack towns. They do not attack senators and governors. Their enemy is the farmer. Their need can only be the land.