By Sharon Faliya Cham
In 1999, not long after Obasanjo
became President, the “Christian community” of Odi in Bayelsa State murdered
some Mobile Policemen sent there on a peacekeeping mission.
But “Christian President” Olusegun Obasanjo didn’t waste time in ordering heavily armed soldiers to go there and wipe off that “Christian community” as punishment for the murdered Mobile Policemen!
But “Christian President” Olusegun Obasanjo didn’t waste time in ordering heavily armed soldiers to go there and wipe off that “Christian community” as punishment for the murdered Mobile Policemen!
Some six or seven years later,
another “Christian community” called Zaki Biam in Benue State murdered some
soldiers sent there on another peacekeeping mission. The murder was so gruesome
that they cut off the heads of some of the soldiers and stuck them on the tips
of their spears, and then danced round the community with them in a primitive
manner as if we were in the Africa of 1326 AD!
Well, “Christian President”
Olusegun Obasanjo didn’t also waste time in sending heavily armed soldiers to
this “Christian community” to wipe off the community in vengeance for the
gruesome murder of those gallant soldiers!
But what do we have today under
Muslim President Muhammadu Buhari?
An Army General on a trip from
Abuja to Bauchi was allegedly ambushed and murdered by a very primitive
community also claiming to be a “Christian community” in Jos, Plateau State,
after which they dumped his car in a deep water pond, and then buried his
corpse in a shallow grave from which they removed it and dumped it in a well
after it dawned on them that the shallow grave has been discovered by military
Intelligence!
The only thing that made the
difference here is the kind of Commander in Chief the Nigerian military
currently has in power. While an impulsive and disruptive Commander in Chief
would never ever waste time in avenging his murdered General by wiping off
everybody within the area of the murder, a cool headed, rational and
compassionate Commander in Chief like Buhari will calculate the factor of
innocent people and other collateral damages within the area of the murder, and
then order the military or the Army in particular to exercise restraint and
allow the natural course of justice to take place!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is why
today, under President Buhari, instead of the Dura Du community to have been
wiped off (by now) by angry soldiers over the gruesome murder of their General,
we merely have the terrorists or murderers of the General hiring 120 lawyers to
defend them in court!
Yes, 120 lawyers! That should tell you that those primitive murderers may be enjoying the support of certain powerful persons and groups who have up till now not condemned the gruesome murder of that General.
Yes, 120 lawyers! That should tell you that those primitive murderers may be enjoying the support of certain powerful persons and groups who have up till now not condemned the gruesome murder of that General.
Not even a word of condemnation
or commiseration was heard from ex-senior military officers of those people,
and neither have we heard any from their Paramount traditional ruler! Only
Governor Simon Lalong and the leadership of COCIN Church were left moving
around, visiting families of the murdered General as well as visiting the
Defence headquarters and the President to apologise and calm frayed nerves!
Now, if President Buhari were an ethno-religious bigot the way some corrupt, bigoted hate-preaching pastors would want you to believe, the fact that the murdered General was a Muslim would have gingered or propelled him to wink at the Army to invade that community and have it wiped off the way Obasanjo did to Odi and Zaki Biam, or the way Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had Bama town in Borno State incinerated in 2012 on the ground that people in the town killed some soldiers sent there to fight “Boko Haram”!
Now, if President Buhari were an ethno-religious bigot the way some corrupt, bigoted hate-preaching pastors would want you to believe, the fact that the murdered General was a Muslim would have gingered or propelled him to wink at the Army to invade that community and have it wiped off the way Obasanjo did to Odi and Zaki Biam, or the way Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had Bama town in Borno State incinerated in 2012 on the ground that people in the town killed some soldiers sent there to fight “Boko Haram”!
Something tells me that the
people of Odi and Zaki Biam are currently envious of the Berom people of Dura
Du who killed a whole Army General and still got the privilege of having their
community intact till date plus the awesome privilege of 120 lawyers to defend
their killer squad that murdered the General.
But as we all know, both Odi and
Zaki Biam communities never had the privilege of hiring 120 lawyers to defend
their own killer squads unlike their Berom brethren who both have this
privilege and the other privilege of even addressing press conferences
to attack and question the Army’s search of the General they allegedly ambushed
and murdered in their bloodied community! This can only happen under a very thoughtful,
compassionate and patient President and Commander in Chief!
Yet, this is the same President
that bigots and vain people in Nigeria who have not hidden their love and
admiration for all the rogues that plundered and ruined Nigeria love to label
as a tyrant or dictator, which leaves you wondering whether the words ‘tyrant’
and ‘dictator’ have acquired different meanings from the meanings of the
despots and rogues who ruled and ruined Nigeria from 1999 to 2015, or are we to
blame the rottenness of education, morality and religious values that took
center stage during those 16 years of plunder and debauchery for this penchant
of calling white black and black white?
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Infact Sharon Cham I weep for you. You are indeed an unrepentant sycophant.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I will say that jungle justice or killing anybody that is not a treat is very wrong and should be condemned. I pray that God will console the family of General Alkali. It is very sad to hear that an unarmed, innocent, private person could be treated and killed just like that in the name of reprisal attack or whatever.
ReplyDeleteSecond, my response to the above narrative given by Sharon Cham is that the various sad events he referenced in comparison with the unfortunate murder of General Alkali are totally different issues. The security men or officers to Odi and Zaki Biam were SENT THERE ON ASSIGNMENT. Such can be described as answering the call of Mr President and C in C to go and keep peace and while carrying out their work they were attacked and killed. But General Alkali was not on an assignment. He was said to have retired. He has already become a private citizen and was on a private visit to Bauchi when he was attacked and killed in Jos community. So you will not expect the President and C in C to respond or react the same way the former Presidents did when serving officers on national duties were murdered. These are two different scenarios. So there is nothing whatsover that any President could have done differently than what is being done now; prosecution. If found guilty they will face the law.