We are not at war and there are no natural disasters, but we still keep counting the dead in Nigeria. It bothers me that we have no value for human life. I believe that every human being has a spark of the divine within them; they have the imprint of God. There is no human being who has the right to cut short the life of another human being.
Unfortunately, we’ve had a series of crises with alleged Fulani herdsmen, alleged because nobody carries an identification card, and we cannot say indeed who these people are. They are not settlers in the community, they are people who rove. The crises that just occurred in Benue state where at the most conservative count, 73 human beings died. It is just a tip of the iceberg; it’s been on, in Adamawa, in the South-East, various parts of Nigeria. I don’t know what it is about Benue that just hit the public consciousness in Nigeria, so poignantly so strongly. I think it is just the last straw that is breaking the camel’s back.
We are all Nigerians, first and foremost human beings; let us choose those who would lead us to a country that we can truly be proud of. Do not believe everything you read. It is very easy to put a name on a broadcast and claim somebody said it, Let us be wise. Let us not be inflamed by what we read or what we heard someone said. Let us work with evidence and proof. Let us not take the law into our own hands, let us remain law abiding citizen.
Anarchy is the only thing worse than bad governance, that should not be allowed to happen under our watch.
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