The Miyetti Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Executive
Members, comprising: Alh. Muhammadu Kiruwa(Ardo Zuru) -National
President , Alh Baba Othman Ngelzarma (National Secretary) and Alh
Yahaya Mohammed (Member) recently paid a courtesy visit to President,
Muhammadu Buhari(GCON) at the Aso Villa. President Muhammadu Buhari
pictured with the MACBAN officials. | MACBAN
Dear President Muhammadu Buhari,
When there were strong indications that
the All Progressive Congress, APC, will have you as their presidential
candidate in the 2015 general elections, most of us who have seen and
read what your person stands for; prayed so hard and wished it would not
come to pass.
For my generation, the killing of some
Youth Corp Members and over 700 other Nigerians by your blood- thirsty
supporters due to instigating statements attributed to you and your
inability to call them to order so as to quench the bloody violence; is
enough to disqualify you from being a president of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria.
What more can be said when one reads
your escapades during the Biafran war and your regime as a Military head
of State where you trampled on the rights of some Nigerians and this
eventually led to their death. To be honest Mr President, your likes
should be facing charges of crimes against humanity rather than be
bestowed with the highest office in the land.
Be that as it may and against the wish
of a good number of conscious Nigerians, you either by hook or crook
became the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. One still
wonders why your government is yet to unravel the circumstances behind
the “mysterious inferno” that killed the 2015 Kano INEC REC (Mikaila
Abdulahi), his wife, children and siblings? Are those lives not worth
the attention of your government or have you seen them as some sort of
collateral damage? Anyway, that is by the way Mr President. You have
been the president of our multi-ethnic and religiously diversified
country for almost two years now and to say that you have not
disappointed people like me is an understatement. Let me not go into
your unlawful detention and trampling on the legal rights of some
perceived members of the opposition parties in the guise of fight
against corruption or even the detention of those who are speaking out
against the inhuman treatment of the Nigerian system against their race
which has been worsened by your regime. I do not even want to go into
the killing of unarmed Biafran protesters in their hundreds by your
soldiers even while they are finding it difficult to fight the boko
Haram terrorists, a.k.a your “misguided brothers”, to a halt. At most,
they captured a flag and Quran and are even more interested in
establishing grazing lands for their castles across the country.
My concern, most paramount at this time,
Mr President is the escapades of your blood-thirsty Fulani herdsmen
brothers ever since you became the President.
Yes, I mean the Fulani herdsmen. From
Nimbo village Uzo-Uwani LGA in Enugu State (where they carried out the
bloodiest attack in the South East) and Ndiagu village in Nkanu West in
the same state (where they killed a 6-month pregnant woman by ripping
her stomach apart and a 26-year-old Seminarian); to Ogbunike village in
Anambra State where many were killed and “our friend” the police could
not respond to the distress calls of those that were able to escape
until the attack was over.
There is Okposi in Ebonyi State where
four young men were sent to their early grave, Irete and Akokwa both in
Imo State and Ozu Item in Bende LGA as well as Arochukwu both in Abia
State.
This is how your blood-thirsty brothers
have been marauding from one state to the other in South East, feeding
their cows on the farms of their victims, threatening to conquer them,
and occupy their lands, raping those they deemed fit to and killing
others.
For your Fulani brothers, their cattle
worth more than human lives, a philosophy which your likes have helped
to deepen in their thoughts by your utterances which are suggestive of
someone with no regard for the sanctity of human life.
It may well interest you, sir, that this
is one of the major reasons for which people like me fought against
your presidency and the governorship ambition of Owelle Rochas Okorocha
of Imo State who is obviously sentimental to the course of your people. I
still vividly remember one of those articles where I made it known that
your presidency will heighten the morale of the blood-thirsty Fulani
herdsmen in our country and they will perpetrate more evil in the land
because they have one of their own in power and one who is obviously in
support of their course, whatever that is.
Be that as it may, some of us wanted to
keep mute and let you run your government as you deemed fit after all,
we saw it all coming, we warned and we have also paid the price of being
opposing voices BUT the recent massacre of Christians in Southern
Kaduna by your blood-thirsty brothers and your most condemnable silence
over this; is too hard to swallow.
I could not just look at the gory
pictures of their escapades in Southern Kaduna. Those were human beings
like you and I and they have every right to live. Their only crime is
that their religion and yours with that of your blood- thirsty brothers
are not the same.
Mr. President, I have always seen you as
an ethnic and religious bigot as well as an unrepentant military
dictator and you obviously have not disappointed me but I do not want
you to keep proving me and so many others who hold the same view, right
anymore. This is because you are doing so at the expense of human lives
and by inflicting pains on those you are unfortunately presiding over
their affairs.
Did you really understand the meaning of
“I belong to nobody and I belong to everybody” or did you obviously
make that statement just for the sake of it? You have not lived up to
this statement one bit but starting by calling your blood-thirsty
brothers to order would be a right step in the right direction of being
the father you should be to all Nigerians irrespective of ethnicity and
religion.
Do you also know that some of these
people who have fallen victims to the ‘madness’ of your brothers;
supported your ambition and government, while some others maybe
relatives or kinsmen of those who did OR is your mind just so fixated on
your acclaimed statement “…will not stop the agitation for the total
implementation of sharia in the country…”?
Mr. President Sir, call your
blood-thirsty brothers to order not for my sake or the sake of my likes
but for the sake of those who believed in you even against all odds.
Save them from shame and total disappointment.
Linda Nneji a concerned citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. She can be reached by email HERE.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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