In a statement signed by Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, President of the CBCN and Archbishop of Owerri, the bishops expressed ‘heavy hearts and deep anguish’ over what they described as ‘utterly barbaric’ attacks on defenceless communities in Benue.
According to the statement, the cold-blooded attacks on defenceless communities where countless have been slaughtered, homes destroyed, and families left in anguish, are an affront to God, a stain on our shared humanity, and a terrifying reminder of the utter breakdown of security in our land.
It said no matter how well a government pays salaries or builds roads, its failure to protect human lives renders its achievements hollow, adding that the sanctity of human life is supreme.
The group called for immediate and decisive action from both state and federal authorities to restore peace, apprehend the perpetrators, and ensure justice for victims.
According to the bishops, “Any government that fails to make the safety and protection of its citizens and their property its foremost priority abdicates its fundamental responsibility and moral legitimacy.”
Indirectly telling the state governor who is also a clergyman to sit up!
ReplyDeleteYes, the governor has to sit up. The cold blooded attacks on the people of Benue state has got to stop.
ReplyDeleteThey're right
ReplyDeleteReports today have it that the Benue state police command have charged 7 Fulani men to court over killings in Katsina Ala and other communities in Benue state. The police alleged that the Fulani were armed by a certain Akwaza in Katsina Ala LGA. Akwaza is a Tiv man. Though it is not immediately clear if he is related to the dreaded killer, late Terwase Akwaza(Gana). Late Gana, also a Tiv man, was on the payroll of politicians from the state as well and he led his boys to commit savage atrocities across Benue and Taraba states. Gana was threatening to expose his sponsors before the Nigerian army killed him in an ambush.
ReplyDeleteThe Benue state governor himself has said Benue state politicians in Abuja are behind arming, sponsoring and feeding Fulani settlements of killers deep in the forests around the state.
So the governor knows who the sponsors of the Fulani killers are. They are Benue state indigenes. That he has refused to name them makes him culpable in the deteriorating security situation of the state.
This is shocking.
DeleteThey sit back and watch human lives lost in thousands.
God will judge all of them.
Nigeria has turn to human abattoir.
ReplyDeleteThe people of Benue state should protect themselves from these blood suckers. The governor should sit up!
Yes there is every need for Alia to sit up but where was Bishop Anagbe's voice when the same was happening during Ortom. Just because he has a beef with Alia, he has now become vocal and instigating the people against the governor.
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