This is not the time for a national census but if we are to count in figures, over 100 Nigerians have been killed in the last one week in Nassarawa and Benue. Both states have literally been turned to an human abattoir flowing with blood of the young, old and the unborn. Our leaders have remained aloof, violence entrepreneurs are smiling to the banks, mass burials has suddenly become apart of us.

Initially, Samuel Ortom was  shocked with the number of deaths that he had to give a befitting burial to victims of New year attacks in Benue but he has lost count few months later and they had to be buried with their clothes stained with blood, in Nassarawa the herders and farmers have sent each other to hell in the hottest and worst manner ever,  every morning the figures rolls in like all share index of the stock exchange.

30 villagers, 3 soldiers, 2 policemen killed in Nassarawa after farmers herders clash.

Two priests, 13 worshippers, two soldiers killed in Benue.

The stories are always in this manner and it’s never complete without the loss of our security agents. The Minister of Agriculture traced the attack to anti grazing law, Minister of Defense ascribed the attacks to closure of grazing routes, the IGP insisted that the anti-grazing laws must be repealed, the President begged Benue citizens to accommodate their countrymen but later had to inform his Canterbury friend that we are witnessing the onslaught of Gadaffi’s men. In summary we’ve placed sycophancy over National tragedy.

Apart from claiming the lives of Nigerians has consumed the lives of our security officers, the Nigerian Police and the Army have lost more than 80 officers to these attackers, has the President shown the right and expected political will? The ANSWER is NO! the President and his handlers has downplayed these attacks on the basis of Politics and ethnicity, it is more confusing when its discovered that the state experiencing this carnage are APC state which should endeared them to the Aso villa but it has never worked in their interest.

The same Presidency that silenced the IPOB in two weeks has failed to do anything concrete in respect to the case of the Fulani herdsmen, the federal government in other to run away from its failures have asked Nigerians to stop referring to them as Fulani herdsmen but bandits, the question is bandits from where? The Presidency has failed to act and the failure is glaring and evident.

This blood flow has to stop!

tosin adesina