Stop turning a blind eye as Benue drowns in blood, Atiku tells Tinubu, Alia
Feeble Vice President Atiku Abubakar has educated President Bola Tinubu and Benue Recount Governor Hyacinth Alia to discontinuance turning a blind witness to the killings taking place in Benue Recount.
Within the previous two days, over 200 folks had been killed in attacks on communities across the inform.
Reacting, Atiku posted a message on X on Monday, titled “Ample is Ample: Benue Can no longer Bleed in Silence”.
He acknowledged the bloodshed in Benue Recount has reached a devastating crescendo, a brutal and coronary heart-wrenching actuality that might perhaps perhaps perhaps no longer be left out.
He added that too many folks in Benue occupy died, families are being destroyed, and the authorities is no longer doing ample to give protection to them.
“For years, families occupy buried their family in silence, villages had been ravaged, and communities shattered, while those in energy stare from a distance, providing nothing nonetheless hole assurances,” Atiku wrote.
“How grand more must the oldsters of Benue undergo sooner than their humanity is acknowledged? Their expect is easy: to are living in peace, to sleep with out apprehension, to farm with out being slaughtered, and to enhance their children with out the constant shadow of violence.”
Atiku additionally condemned the police for firing trudge fuel to disperse protesters within the central city of Makurdi on Sunday, as exasperate mounted over the killing of dozens of parents by gunmen in a nearby town.
He mentioned, “When residents preserve to the streets to articulate this injustice, they are no longer inciting get up; they are crying for lend a hand. They're stressful what every Nigerian is constitutionally entitled to: the apt to existence and the protection of that existence by the inform. However what operate they win in return? Shuffle fuel. Brutality. Disdain. It's pouring scorching oil on an launch wound.
“To unleash power on grieving, defenseless residents is no longer governance, it is cruelty. It's miles a betrayal of the sacred duty of leadership. What more or less authorities meets a shout for safety with the barrel of a gun and a canister of fuel?”
The dearth of urgency, the indifference, and the silence, in accordance to Atiku, are all damning and that it speaks to a deeper rot within the sense of right and inaccurate of leadership, a horrifying normalisation of violence against the very folks they swore to give protection to.
Atiku then called on the sense of right and inaccurate of every leader at both the federal and inform ranges to discontinuance turning a blind witness while Benue drowns in blood.
“End providing condolences and begin providing solutions. Work with security companies, deploy sources, and craft a security structure that prioritises human lives over political optics.
“Benue is no longer on my own. From Plateau to Zamfara, Kaduna to Taraba, the cries are the identical. Nigerians are bleeding and begging to be heard,” he acknowledged.
The primitive vp educated Nigerians no longer to be silenced, announcing, “Elevate your voices. Quiz accountability. Quiz justice. Quiz a authorities that sees you, hears you, and protects you. Ancient previous might perhaps perhaps well no longer be sort to those who chose energy over folks. The time to behave is now.”
