Nigeria, undeniably, is at war with itself and delicately mangled between brutal terrorists in forests and inept leadership at the peak.
Nowhere perhaps is the war more evident than in the Nigerian Middle Belt, particularly in the Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Niger and Zamfara states axis. The persistent and methodical killings of natives in that axis should put no one in doubt of the plan of the aggressors to exterminate or forcefully dominate the indigenes of the area. The Federal Government’s denial of brewing existential danger and deodorising terrorists as bandits and herders is troubling.
Two hypotheses that are not mutually exclusive are evident in this raging conflagration. First, there is an inherent complicity and sabotage in the defence system and its strategy. Criminal gangs seem to have infiltrated the armed forces with military helicopters used to drop-off sophisticated ammunition to terrorists in the forest.
About a week ago, suspected herders killed 13 persons in two separate attacks in Ortom’s Guma Local Council in Benue. Among them is a three-month-old baby that was shot in the chest, and mourners that were returning from a burial at Torkula village. About 24 hours earlier, eight persons were mauled in the same council area. In neighbouring Nasarawa State, at least five Tiv farmers were also killed by suspected herders. Plateau State is not any different.
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