CALLS FOR SACK OF CP MAKAMA, ARREST OF LEADERS OF MIYETTI ALLAH
Admin l Saturday, January, 06, 2018
MAKURDI, Benue, Nigeria – Members of Benue Journalists’ Forum Nigeria (BJFN), an association of professional journalists of Benue State extraction have called on President Donald J. Trump of the United States and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin to save Benue indigenes of North Central Nigeria from extinction as a result of sustained unprovoked attacks on the helpless citizens from group they called ‘Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists’.
Over 50 people including pregnant women and children where killed between 1st and 3rd January, 2018 when Fulani herdsmen invaded Benue community.
In a statement, President BJFN, Comrade Joseph Saater Undu said the call has become necessary as a result of the inability of the Nigerian security agencies to halt the calculated genocide against the people of the state.
“Unfortunately, the Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces and grand patron of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, an organization known to be the main sponsor of this terrorist group, President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to maintain a dignified silence as his kinsmen carry out dastardly attacks on helpless citizens including women and children.
“We had last year on the 4th of October, 2017 issued a widely publicized press statement titled “OVER 400 UNKNOWN ARMED MEN CAMP IN BENUE COMMUNITY” alerting the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris and the public about the threats by herdsmen and their sponsors to take over Benue valley by attacking it from six fronts namely, Kwande, Guma, Konshisha, Vande-Ikyaa and Gwer respectively.
“Unfortunately, this alarm was not taken seriously by the presidency and the security agencies until these marauders made real their threats following the new year unprovoked and unchallenged barbaric genocide against our people in Logo and Guma Local Government areas respectively.
“This is coming on the heels of the failure of the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore to arm-twist the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/527/2017 to stop the historic Anti-Open Grazing Law enacted by the Benue State Government to prohibit open grazing on farms.
We have lost confidence in the security architecture of this great country, hence our call on the international community to come to our aid”, he said.
BJFN recalled that Fulani herdsmen terrorists were ranked recently as the fourth most deadly terrorist organization in the world, adding that the association is making the call because Benue people have no military might to fight them.
“We hereby call on Presidents Trump and Putin to give them ISIS treatment which ended the war in Syria. We call on the Nigerian Police to immediately arrest all the leaders of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore led by Alhaji Abdullahi Bello Bodojo and Secretary, Saleh Alhassan and bring them to justice. They are not above the law.
“We also call on the IGP to immediately remove the Commissioner of Police in Benue state, CP Bashiru Makama who had Yesterday confirmed our suspicion of complicity in these attacks on Channels TV where he said “we will only enforce lawful laws.”
“We no longer have confidence in him again! He has failed to enforce legitimate laws passed by the state legislature. His continued stay in the state may further aggravate the already tense atmosphere”, the group said and called on Nigerian Ambassadors to Russia and the United states of America to table their plight to the authorities concerned.
“And urge Benue indigenes in America, Europe, Asia and all over the world to tell the United Nation that, Benue lives matter, through massive demonstrations. We commiserate with the families of the over 50 victims whose decapitated bodies have been so far recovered”, BJFN said.
