PRESIDENCY CONDEMNATION ON BENUE KILLINGS, ANTICS OF COLLUSION
PRESIDENCY CONDEMNATION ON BENUE KILLINGS, ANTICS OF COLLUSION
“I extend my sincere condolences to the Govt and people of Benue State, the Mbalom community, and especially the Bishop, priests & members of the St Ignatius' Catholic Church, whose premises was the unfortunate venue of the heinous killings of worshippers & two priests by gunmen.
“This latest assault on innocent persons is particularly despicable. Violating a place of worship, killing priests and worshippers is not only vile, evil and satanic, it is clearly calculated to stoke up religious conflict and plunge our communities into endless bloodletting.
“I want to assure the people of Benue, and all Nigerians, that we will ensure that the assailants are apprehended and brought to justice for this vile and sacrilegious act”- President Buhari.
These and similar messages have consistently maintained their drip from Federal government since the killings began this year in Benue state without concerted efforts on their part to end the spate of killings. Any time there are killings in Benue, the presidency condemns it almost immediately.
It appears that the presidency has made a message template for condemnation and condolences in respect to Benue killings. But are these condemnations and condolences genuine?
From hindsight and history, these ready-made condemnation and condolence messages are not genuine but a pacifying antidote to soaring the spate of the pogrom in Benue State.
A classic example is the case of Major Debo Basorun verses Gen. Ibrahim Babangida concerning the death of Dele Giwa. Debo was the Chief Press Secretary to the former head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida whom he served dutifully. He fell out of favour with the General and the powers-that-be the moment he began to inquire from the president and the commission of inquiry what led to Dele Giwa's death after he had been used to launder the image of the military administration concerning the journalist’s death that was occasioned by a letter bomb.
His persistence on unraveling the course of Dele Giwa’s death led him to some obscure revelations that, indeed, the president commissioned the journalist death which he had all along been defending with his blood.
The moment the powers-that-be, which was chiefly made from the northern region, became discomforted with his inquiry and the amount of information he had; they went for him to kill. He was tortured and humiliated, but for the why, he was not told. He would report to president Babangida the psychotic torture in the hands of his northern superiors but the president would always feign ignorance of his case but assuage him with a response of assurance to put a stop to it.
The truth was that the President was fully aware of whatever torture that befell his image maker as those actors were only carrying out the president’s bidding.
This is the same scenario playing out on Benue killings. Any time there are reported cases of killings, the presidency issues condemnation or condolence messages with assurances to stem the tide of killings by herdsmen while in actual sense, it is aiding the killers, covertly or overtly, by commission or omission.
One wonders whether these killings are about just grazing, but there are not. With the dimension the killings have taken where priests and faithful were killed in cold blood during a celebration of Mass, it only portends that war is indeed lurking in the corner. This is beyond grazing concerns but a calculated attempt of ethnic cleansing and the push to Islamize Nigeria. This is jihad.
No doubt, there is collusion everywhere, and even more in Aso villa, concerning the wholesale destruction of human lives in Benue State. And one could only ask, is it a coincidence that the formation of this administration’s security chiefs wears the same look as that of IBB where they were drawn from the north that tortured Ret. Major Debo Basorun and planed his elimination? If Ret. Major Debo did not get justice in the hands of the northern militarized oligarchy, how sure is one that justice can be found when herdsmen killings are being discussed on the security table by their kinsmen?
‘I condemn the killings’ this is the message template on Benue killings. It may sound assuaging but it’s collusion in disguise.
When they write ‘I condemn the killings,' I write ‘they collude.’
Maestro M
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“I extend my sincere condolences to the Govt and people of Benue State, the Mbalom community, and especially the Bishop, priests & members of the St Ignatius' Catholic Church, whose premises was the unfortunate venue of the heinous killings of worshippers & two priests by gunmen.
“This latest assault on innocent persons is particularly despicable. Violating a place of worship, killing priests and worshippers is not only vile, evil and satanic, it is clearly calculated to stoke up religious conflict and plunge our communities into endless bloodletting.
“I want to assure the people of Benue, and all Nigerians, that we will ensure that the assailants are apprehended and brought to justice for this vile and sacrilegious act”- President Buhari.
These and similar messages have consistently maintained their drip from Federal government since the killings began this year in Benue state without concerted efforts on their part to end the spate of killings. Any time there are killings in Benue, the presidency condemns it almost immediately.
It appears that the presidency has made a message template for condemnation and condolences in respect to Benue killings. But are these condemnations and condolences genuine?
From hindsight and history, these ready-made condemnation and condolence messages are not genuine but a pacifying antidote to soaring the spate of the pogrom in Benue State.
A classic example is the case of Major Debo Basorun verses Gen. Ibrahim Babangida concerning the death of Dele Giwa. Debo was the Chief Press Secretary to the former head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida whom he served dutifully. He fell out of favour with the General and the powers-that-be the moment he began to inquire from the president and the commission of inquiry what led to Dele Giwa's death after he had been used to launder the image of the military administration concerning the journalist’s death that was occasioned by a letter bomb.
His persistence on unraveling the course of Dele Giwa’s death led him to some obscure revelations that, indeed, the president commissioned the journalist death which he had all along been defending with his blood.
The moment the powers-that-be, which was chiefly made from the northern region, became discomforted with his inquiry and the amount of information he had; they went for him to kill. He was tortured and humiliated, but for the why, he was not told. He would report to president Babangida the psychotic torture in the hands of his northern superiors but the president would always feign ignorance of his case but assuage him with a response of assurance to put a stop to it.
The truth was that the President was fully aware of whatever torture that befell his image maker as those actors were only carrying out the president’s bidding.
This is the same scenario playing out on Benue killings. Any time there are reported cases of killings, the presidency issues condemnation or condolence messages with assurances to stem the tide of killings by herdsmen while in actual sense, it is aiding the killers, covertly or overtly, by commission or omission.
One wonders whether these killings are about just grazing, but there are not. With the dimension the killings have taken where priests and faithful were killed in cold blood during a celebration of Mass, it only portends that war is indeed lurking in the corner. This is beyond grazing concerns but a calculated attempt of ethnic cleansing and the push to Islamize Nigeria. This is jihad.
No doubt, there is collusion everywhere, and even more in Aso villa, concerning the wholesale destruction of human lives in Benue State. And one could only ask, is it a coincidence that the formation of this administration’s security chiefs wears the same look as that of IBB where they were drawn from the north that tortured Ret. Major Debo Basorun and planed his elimination? If Ret. Major Debo did not get justice in the hands of the northern militarized oligarchy, how sure is one that justice can be found when herdsmen killings are being discussed on the security table by their kinsmen?
‘I condemn the killings’ this is the message template on Benue killings. It may sound assuaging but it’s collusion in disguise.
When they write ‘I condemn the killings,' I write ‘they collude.’
Maestro M
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