Benue: the Nigerians do not need peace without justice, Ikedd …

Everyone is crying for peace, yes,

Nobody is crying for justice.
I don’t want any peace,
I need equal rights and justice.
I have to take it! Equal rights and justice.
I’m fighting for this! Equal rights and justice. -Ast of the 1977 album title, Equal Rights, of the legend of the Jamaican reggae Peter Tosh (1944-87).

What does the late, bright and banal policies of governments inform when the Nigerians are attacked, hundreds of killed people and their farms are devastated?

Are there policies, in these cases, what instructions that the president must ignore the attacks, drag their feet until people start screaming and travels with evident reluctance?

Does Nigeria have a game book from which the presidents, in particular elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, copy this distressing behavior?

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had no business throughout Benue’s state if everything he had to say to the people, all the pain, depression and uncertainties around them, was nothing.

Tinubu was an exception for President Haringluck Jonathan President with social media tweets after blaming him for not having done anything about insecurity. Has Tinubu forgot?

Here is the summary of Tinubu who turns to a people who lost so many lives and know that the show to Makurdi was not a guarantee that another attack did not loom:

A. I had to cancel my planned visited in the state of Kaduna, to commission the projects by the state government, to be here.

Maybe he expected a tour of applause. This great sacrifice that the president has done. Being really disturbed. He must have walked from Abuja to Makurdi, where school children flanked the streets, in the rain, waiting for his arrival. Some of those children may be sick now.

Why did he want the president five days after the visit to the killings? He was engaged in Abuja to commission water and road projects: Benue could wait, someone thought, justifying him with the fact that the president had no powers to raise the dead. Why the haste?

B. Live in peace and harmony with each other. Reconcile with each other.

Tinubbu could have copied those Buhari lines that in 2018 visited Benue 12 weeks after the New Year’s killings that lasted 11 days and caused more lives, according to the inhabitants of the village, compared to the 73 buried in Makurdi.

“Your Excellency, The Governor, and all the Leaders here, I AM APALING TO YOU TO TRY TO RESTRAIN YOUR People. I Assure You That The Police, The Department of State Security and Other Security Agencies Had Been Directed to Ensure That All Those Behind the Mayhem Get Punished. Name of God to Accomodate Your Country Men.

Note that the duty of moderation was imposed on those who cried their dead.
Something worse happened. Bohari’s spokesman Fami CongaShina instructive Benue People on another occasion: “Ancestral attachment? Can you have an ancestral attachment only when you are alive. If you are dead, how is the attachment important? The National Economic Council that recommended the Ranch not only legislated; there were recommendations.

“So, if your state has no lands for the ranch, it is understandable. Not all states will have land for the ranch. But where you have earth and you can do something, please do for peace. What will the earth be used for if those who own it have died in the end?”

Benue himself is still the problem today.

In 2025, Tinubu compared our lives with cattle and reached the solid judgment that Nigerian lives were more important than cattle.

Wednesday’s event was a show once an official announcement of the government of Benue’s state asked the support groups to present themselves in their colors to give the president a colorful and exciting reception. It was a manifestation of the political party. Was it a surprise that the condolence visit has been without the sobriety of mourning more than 200 people?

“The value of human life is greater than that of a cow. We are here to govern, not to bury,” Tinubu said at the meeting of the interested parties. For governor Hyacinth alia, “your political enemies don’t want you to be successful. Are you just making it?”. Politics, always politics
As big as the sudden wisdom of Tinubu seems to achieve the importance of human life, the human debate for life could start again.

June last year, a ranking senator discussed on the floor of the Senate that the cattle were citizens of Nigeria and had constitutional rights. It was pain from the denial of citizenship rights to cattle. The debate was on an account for the Ranch.

Look at his pedigree, my hypothesis is that the pedigree still has meaning. He was governor of the state of Kebbi for eight years, he was elected Senator in 2007, a position that he left for two years as president Umaru Musa Yar’adua minister of the territory of the federal capital. Since 2015 he had an uninterrupted mandate in the Senate.

His name? Adamu Aliero.
Aliero is well polite. The 1980 graduate of Political Science knows Nigeria well enough and the damage that opened the pasture of the cows has done throughout the country.

His service in the immigration of Nigeria and in the customs service and excise duty brought him to different parts of Nigeria. He wasted the experience by preferring a parish debate and Dim on citizenship shared with cows.

“The cows are not citizens of Nigeria, Senator Aliero, are you discussing with me? The section you refer to is talking about citizens of Nigeria. And cows are not citizens of Nigeria. The cows can come from Niger, Chad or anywhere,” he shouted the president of the Senate Obong Godswill Akpabio.

Tinubu has artists of the caliber of Aliero with which to fight as a Ranch is again proposed as a solution to the loss of lives that is hinged to the open pasture.

In light of these confusions staged, the Nigerians do not ask for equal rights, since Peter Tosh sang 48 years ago. Equal rights with cows?

What we want is justice. The emptiness of peace and harmony fixes us every day in the face. How do you reconcile the living with those who killed?

The face of the woman who tends to her son in the hospital, a child who will grow up with a hand cut by those who kill and mutize without obstacles, speaks of contempt and anger for the crowd of Tinubu who flooded the hospital in the false sympathy that cannot provide solutions to the killings. He simply removed his face from visitors, dressed as if they were celebrating the event.

The Nigerians, wherever, want justice. The murders are very wild widespread. Words will not take justice.

Too many reasons are given for the attacks started while farmers collide with genocidal attacks and are also terrorists. There are not enough reasons to allow their persistence and the patience of the government.

Having known the reasons of the attacks, what is the government doing? Waiting for the same attacks to repeat the same message with the same feelings?

At the beginning, Tinubu can punish those who refuse his orders to arrest the killers. There are too many excuses that are transformed into reasons.

The criminals that perpetuate these chaos does not matter who they are, or where they release, should they be arrested and punished for their crimes? Or do we have laws that refuse to punish criminals because they are foreigners or shepherds?

The Nigerians are tired that these tragedies are transformed into comedies with updated competence. Now that Tinubu has spoken of the importance of humans, we want to see his actions reflect.

■ Isiguz0 is an important commentator on minor issues.

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