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"Let anybody come and confront me publicly in the National Assembly. What have they been doing? Some of them have been there for 10 years. What have they been doing?" - @MBuhari, 22/5/18
Today while his VP was in #Benue attending the funerals on a number of our countrymen who were killed by suspected herdsmen in the ongoing #PastoralConflict, our President was busy making nonsense of @ProfOsinbajo's efforts by running his mouth in the villa at a campaign event.
While it is common knowledge that Buhari doesn't really care about the average Nigerian, and is more concerned with returning to the Villa next year, it boggles the mind that the man keeps undermining those who could have worked with him to actually give him a decent legacy.
Every #Nigerian has a fundamental right to life according to the 1999 constitution.
Sadly, 1351 lives have been lost to violent killings across the country & more citizens are still being killed to date
#NigeriaMourns
#OneDeathTooMany
#WeAreAllWeHave
Sadly, 1351 lives have been lost to violent killings across the country & more citizens are still being killed to date
#NigeriaMourns
#OneDeathTooMany
#WeAreAllWeHave
From herdsmen onslaught in #Taraba & #Benue to the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East. When will the killings stop?
#NigeriaMourns
#OneDeathTooMany
#WeAreAllWeHave
#NigeriaMourns
#OneDeathTooMany
#WeAreAllWeHave
Monday, May 28th is the National Day of Mourning & Remembrance for all victims of violent killings across #Nigeria.
IF THE GOVERNMENT FORGETS; WE WON'T!
#NigeriaMourns
#OneDeathTooMany
#WeAreAllWeHave
IF THE GOVERNMENT FORGETS; WE WON'T!
#NigeriaMourns
#OneDeathTooMany
#WeAreAllWeHave
Long before the herdsmen violence Benue State had been suffering an extreme "violence" of a different kind; Vicious poverty.
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#Benue State, presently in the throes of the worst violent onslaught on its peoples, has been long caught up in another extreme “violence”, that of a deadly vicious cycle of poverty.Benue economy is mostly agrarian.
However the state government, which is the main provider of capital, has ceased to be supportive. In the past 6 years, salaries have been so irregular that most workers only see them as a sort of back up rather than their main source of income.
1/ Politics and governance took centre stage this week, with the FG under fire for a slow response to floods in Benue,
2/ and Amnesty International serving a reminder, where none was needed, of the catastrophic human toll of Boko Haram’s insurgency.
3/ Finally on the reminder trail, Nigeria’s states have always had a thing for debt, and Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are Nigerian after all.
