A prominent Senator representing Nasarawa-South has stated that the statement by TY Danjuma in which the retired military man advocated for Nigerians to rise up and defend themselves, is right.
Senator Suleiman Adokwe said this at the plenary on Tuesday in which he also noted that the Fulani Herdsmen were wreaking havoc in his district and that the Presidency had so far not done enough to end the violence.
Adokwe said, “Throughout the weekend to this moment, herdsmen have unleashed mayhem on the people of my senatorial district, leaving many dead bodies, numerous injured persons and hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons.
“The victims are largely the Tiv speaking ethnic nationalities, with a reported dead toll of 32 persons, and we are still counting.”
He continued; “The tragedy is that for four days running, this mayhem has continued unhindered, unchecked, unstopped by any arm of the law and security enforcement agencies.
“Indeed, right under the nose of the armed forces and the police, this killing is sustained by sheer negligence or refusal to act by the security agencies. It is very sad that in Nigeria, with all the security forces, a whole senatorial district will go on being punished by militia and no action coming from government,”
On why he felt that perhaps TY Danjuma had a point in his call for Nigerians to defend themselves, Adokwe said; “It is no wonder that very eminent Nigerian citizens have urged Nigerians to defend themselves because their security is in their own hands and no longer in the hands of the Nigerian security forces.
“I am very emotional on this matter and I am not one given to emotion very easily. But what I have gone through this weekend is very horrifying; it is very distressing and sad. It is as if we are in a lawless society where life is brutish; where there is absence of state powers. We call on the Federal Government to stop this carnage.”
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