By Polycarp Onwubiko
History cannot be despised no matter the circumstances, especially by political leaders both in civilized countries of the world and underdeveloped countries as well. There is a time honoured aphorism that "no condition is permanent", according to Right Hon Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first president of Nigeria during the First Republic.
The APC chieftains must take the responsibility for the apparent state of anomy cascading towards anarchy ( but God forbid) in the present realities in the country because of what somebody described as "hero worship" of the immediate past president of Nigeria, Buhari.
Revelling and luxuriating in sycophancy and bootlicking,
Buhari's closest friends and acolytes having observed the trajectory of ruin
and disaster due to his autocratic predisposition, ethno religious irredentism
and despicable aloofness on the necessity to see reason to respect the
principles of federal system of government which go along with good governance,
they refused to advise him to retrace his ignoble measures for the corporate
interest of the country.
Having allegedly assured the
Fulani race in the West Africa Sahel region that God has given them Nigeria as
permanent residence, the borders in the Northern part of the country were flung
open for their unchecked infiltration. Having infiltrated they , with the
covert nod of Aso Rock, they Islamic terrorists masquerading as herdsmen
embarked on ethnic cleansing of Christian communities in southern Kaduna and
middle belt states and occupying the communities vacated by the survived ones
who are quartered in makeshift refugee resettlements and dying in droves while
the federal government and its security agents feel unconcerned.
Since the large and vast
expanse of arable lands for farming have been vacated for fear of the
terrorists masquerading as herdsmen, farming had to take the back side hence
the devastating food crises throughout the country leading to looting trailers
and trucks carrying food commodities especially in the northern part of the
country. This latest development has led to food manufacturers to threaten shut
down of their factories and laying off the workers; and the consequences could
not indescribable and horrendous.
In the usual deception and
childish gimmickry the federal government embarked on fire brigade measure by
promising distribution of few tonnes of food reserves in the ware houses. That
led to Vanguard columnist, Dele Sobowale who described the promise as deception
and groping in the dark.
Writing in the Vanguard column
March 3, 2024 he remarkably said inter alia:
"To be candid, government
at all levels is not being honest with us. Irrespective of of which political
party is in power at federal and state levels, their reactions to the looming
famine is frankly speaking shocking. Millions of Nigerians lives are at stake.
"Perhaps it is only a
coincidence that the FG , which encouraged herdsmen and bandits to drive
millions of farmers off the farms, was headed by Mohammed Buhari of the All
Progressive Congress, APC--whose symbol is the broom. Present and future
historians, writing about how we ended up in this terrible situation, in which
most Nigerians now live with empty stomach, must lay the blame squarely on the
door step of Buhari and the APC National Secretariat.
"Buhari started the
demolition job on our farms; and none of the members called him out. One
official actually had the effrontery to go to the television to offer fellow
Nigerians the Devil's alternative--your land or your life. That was the
audacity of infamy which has landed us where we are with regard to food
production... A lot of farmers have withdrawn services on the farms due to
insecurity.
"One Pastor from the
Devil's chapel went to work to work for Buhari for eight years. While in
residence at Aso Rock, which we have been told was overrun by demons by a
previous lodger, the Pastor on live TV supported the slaughter of thousands of
farmers who refused to surrender their lands to herdsmen. Now he has joined
others who had inhabited the dungeon to write books about Buhari's" achievements"
in their books, you will not read about how herdsmen militia, about 400,000
armed assassins, was created to capture Nigeria today---killing, kidnapping,
raping and making farming impossible.
"Their Life Patron lives in peace in Daura. About 380,000 Nigerians have paid with their lives for this particular "achievement". But Pastor won't tell you the truth about herdsmen genocide".
Comment
Wonderful and fearless
Columnist. The formidable challenge to find solution to the ravaging hunger in
Nigeria lies with president Tinubu and not the so-called"National Economic
Advisory Council", no, let him implement his presidential election
campaign Manifesto on food security because he knew all the horrendous
atrocities perpetrated and still doing so by the terrorists masquerading as
herdsmen occupying the communities in southern Kaduna and middle belt states
while the survived ones are languishing in makeshift refugee resettlements.
Let Tinubu not shy away from
this crucial task to drive the Islamic invaders out of the country for the
refugees to go back to their ancestral homelands and pick the pieces of their
shattered livelihood and start clearing farmlands for all year round farming.
By Polycarp Onwubiko, media
commentator, writes from Awka, Anambra State.
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