ALIA’S NAKED DANCE ON THE GRAVES OF BENUE PEOPLE
…He got a commendation call from Sokoto yesterday evening
The Network For Transparent Governance (NTG) strongly condemns the reckless utterances of Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia who last weekend claimed that Fulani attacks and killing of innocent people have ended in the state since his assumption of office. The governor also claimed that peace has returned to the state and everyone is happy.
Our inner sources have said that Governor Alia received a call from the Sultanate in Sokoto yesterday commending him for his “brave defence of Fulani interests in Benue State”. The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar whom Alia fondly calls “my daddy” was said to be very impressed with the governor’s friendly disposition towards Fulani herders and his continued exoneration of the herders from any attack. It is now becoming apparent to everyone that the reports we read about Alia entering into an agreement with Fulani to win election and give them Benue lands are true. But the governor didn’t have to insult the sensibilities of Benue people with his unguarded statements that Fulani are no longer killing our people!
It is so shocking and disheartening to us and so insensitive and heartless of governor Alia to have told such a blatant lie from the pit of hell. It is truly unfortunate that a man who once stood on the altar as a priest could choose a place of worship of God to spew lies that could be associated only with the devil and its agents. No wonder the church suspended this fake man on two occasions!
To put the records straight, the killings in Benue state have rather escalated since Alia came into power, and that is partly due to his compromise with the enemy, his insensitivity and total disregard for the sanctity of the lives of the people whom he has done little or nothing to protect since he came into power.
There have been six mass burials in Benue state within the 21 months that Alia has been in power, the latest of which came in Otukpo Local Government last week where his Deputy, Sam Ode represented the ever-lying governor.
When he was campaigning, Alia promised to end insecurity in the state and return the displaced people to their ancestral homes within a short period of 100 days. Maybe it is not yet 100 days.
Insecurity is at its highest height in the state under Governor Alia. No day passes without reports of attacks, kidnappings and other crimes. Fulani herders are on the rampage. Women and children have been taken away from their families. Many are still missing.
The Fulani terrorists decide who goes where. They have appointed some of their members as leaders of the occupied communities. The indigenous villagers have to pay the armed herders money to allow them to go to their farms, and the villagers are under an unwritten oath never to complain if their farms are destroyed by Fulani cattle.
Whenever someone dies, the Fulani demand payment before allowing the bereaved family to bury their dead. That is the grim and devastating situation that Alia’s tenure has forced upon Benue people. Yet, he has the guts to lie that the attacks have ended.
Governor Alia must not feign ignorance of the fact that he is the chief security officer of Benue state and must do anything legally possible to safeguard the lives and property of the people. He needs to move away from his pre-election romance with his Fulani sponsors, because that marriage of strange bed fellows is not enough to make him mortgage the lives of Benue people for his political gains.
Benue people have been vocal is saying they don’t have land to cede to Fulani invaders for their evil agenda. So Alia should be aware that even his clandestine move to paint the merchants of death white just to make them acceptable to the people will fail.
We therefore call on the Benue people to stand up and demand accountability from the governor who is yet to show the direction he intends to lead them to, nearly two years in power.
We also urge all men of discernment within and outside Benue State to discountenance those empty and unconscionable lies that Governor Alia usually bury in his articificial rhetorics to deceive the people as those only
We also urge all discerning individuals, both within and outside Benue, to reject the misleading rhetoric often employed by Governor Alia. He is only revealing his true identity as the devil who has come to lie, to steal and to kill.
Signed:
Dennis Agema
President
Network For Transparent Governance (NTG).
