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BUHARI HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS,
A GENOCIDE IS TAKING PLACE IN NIGERIA UNDER HIS WATCH

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"The world is dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" Albert Einstein.

"I will continue to show openly and inside me., the total commitment to Sharia movement all over Nigeria" Muhammadu Buhari News 24 August 2001.

“If what happened in 2011 (alleged rigging) should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.’’ He did not elaborate further. On alleged existence of three groups of Boko Haram, General Buhari added, “I will like to quote Professor Ango Abdullahi that said there are three Boko Harams including the original one led by Muhammed Yusufu who was killed and his supporters tried to take revenge by attacking the law enforcement agencies and politicians. There is another developed Boko Haram of criminals who steal and kill… while the biggest Boko Haram is the Federal Government"

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n 25 April 2016, Fulani herdsmen attacked Enugu and killed over 100 Igbos. This is another massacre too many. When will the president of Nigeria show leadership? What kind of leader keeps silent in the face of such evil and pogrom? Are the victims not citizens of Nigeria? Are their blood the blood of baboons and dogs, which he threatened would flow. I am outraged.

The most heart wrenching part of this massacre is that Enugu state governor Knew about it and tried to reach the president to ask the army and police to prevent it, but the president made himself unavailable.

I was reliably informed that There was a call made by Enugu state Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to President Buhari, the governor was put on hold for over an hour 15 minutes.

This call was made in the presence of witnesses. The Presidential aide told the Governor that the President will get back to him. The President through his aide after 4 hrs told Enugu state governor that the President will do something about it.

In an effort to prevent the attack Governot Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on hearing that the police have not arrived at Uzouwani called GOC 82 division for help. He was once again refereed to the presidency.

This time, he was put on hold for nearly 2 hrs. He was still waiting to hear from the president, when news came in the morning that the attack he was planning to prevent has actually taken place and several people murdered.

Within an hour, of this attack, the police commissioner and GOC who refereed the Governor to the President have mobilised their men to stop retaliation. The same way Lagos and Agatu was attacked and retaliation prevented.

In real democracy, the behaviour of the president, the police commission and GOC 82 battalion should be enough to demand their resignations. I call for judicial inquiry to this massacre.

This is an unjustifiable hate crime and barbarism against Igbos. If anybody thinks that it would intimidate Igbos to accept Fulani enclaves through Grazing Ground bills in Igbo land, it is a spectacularly miscalculation.

The evidence of the complicity of the Nigerian government in the escalating ethnic cleansing by Fulani herdsmen is increasing and can also be inferred from the silence of the president and the indifference of the security agencies to the suffering of the victims.

Since the election of Muhammadu Buhari, as president of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen terrorism has worsened. Genocidal attacks on villages has increased and hundreds of innocent people have been killed in cold blood and the villages ransacked and burnt down.

What is intriguing about these attacks is that the Nigerian President, a Fulani and ardent Islamist, who threatened in the past that he will not rest until the whole of Nigetia is under sharia, has remained loudly silent.

Instead of strengthening the war against terror, he has withdrawn soldiers fighting Boko Haram and sent them, not to keep those at risk of attacks from Fulani herdsmen safe, but to East Nigeria to fight unarmed peaceful Igbo youth protesting for self determination.

At the same time, there is a bill in the legislature to establish Fulani enclaves all over Nigeria. A reward for those who have terrorised and caused the internal displacement of thousands of people.

All these raise anxiety in those who have a sense of history and know what people motivated by religious zeal and ethnic nationalism are capable.

Not since the Nazi genocide against the Jews the break up of Yugoslavia, has a government stood by, while armed men pillage, kill, and destroy at will, those the government is supposed to protect. A Crime against humanity is unfolding in Nigeria and the government of Muhammadu Buhari keeps silent.

Nigeria is in a very difficult position. The calculus of world politics would suggest that it will be the next destination for jihadists that would be expelled from Iraq and Syria and Buhari rather sectarian leadership has not helped matters.

The country has never been so divided and many have understandably concluded that they do not have a future in a country dominated by one ethnic group, where Fulani herdsmen can kill at will without consequences.

This is a dark period in the history of those who continue to pay the blood price of one Nigeria and a time must come when thy must decide that it is a price they no longer wish to pay.

A war is going on in Igbo land. Armed Fulani militia are transported at night to villages, where they engage in horrific and nauseating killings of defenceless villagers and then taken away when they finish. Igbo highest council must meet to articulate a defensive and offensive response.

We must now start thinking as a people under threat so that we will not be wiped out.

Africa is full of one ethnic group eliminating another. There is evidence from past pogroms that some of the guns used by Fulani herdsmen belong to Nigerian army.

The Enugu attack was carried out with military precision. The government must bring the perpetrators to justice to give peace a chance. Without disarming Fulani herdsmen and bringing the perpetrators of these heinous and inhuman crimes to justice, it would be impossible to restore the faith of the families of the victims in Nigeria.

Nigerians must not be in doubt about who started this war. It was started by those who believe that those who belong to other ethnic groups and religion are baboons whose blood must flow for them to have their way.

Igbos need a leader who will speak up and hold Buhari and the federal government accountable, not those who will give good reasons for inaction and those who can be bought to explain the reason for terror.

Already, there has been a sudden migration of youth from the north with motor cycles paid for by the same people who sponsor Boko Haram to south Nigeria.

It would seem that Boko Haram was a means to intimidate Nigerians to vote an Islamist by annihilating the most Christian part of north Nigeria. It is not often mentioned that the Chibok Girls were Christians. The question is, why did Boko Haram concentrate on Christian villages and ethnic minority groups in the north. Igbos we must wake up.

I cannot have respect for any leader, who will find reason to keep silent in the face of such evil. It would seem that Nigeria is run by a bunch of greedy psychopathic criminal minded elites and Islamic extremists, who wish to use sharia law and the military to solve moral, social and political problems and feel nothing in the face of evil.

I am almost ashamed to be Igbo at this time. Without justice for all those killed by Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria will never know peace. The least we can do is to ensure that the victims of Fulani herdsmen terrorism in Nigeria will never be forgotten and those behind these crimes brought to justice. I am outraged.

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