"a history painted with the blood of the innocent, also paints the future"
Recent claims by former President and Commander in Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at a function in Benue state points fingers to the former Benue State Governor George Akume as being behind the sacked village settlement of Benue state "Zaki Biam".
Obasanjo claimed that George Akume requested the military. Obasanjo said, "we had a case where the Governor said the situation was beyond him. When you have a situation like that and you invite the military because the Governor has no power to deploy the military, he invites the President who is also the Commander in Chief to deploy the military". As a result of this request, over 200 hundred village residents were rounded up and shot by military personnel deployed to keep the peace, in retaliation for the 19 mutilated bodies of soldiers discovered in Zaki Biam.
This brings to mind the incessant crisis in Jos and the countless no of casualties and recorded dead, yet no major action has been taken by the State Governor in person of Jonah Jang or the Federal Government. This uncaring attitude asks more than a few questions:
is the situation in Jos not beyond the governor, Jonah Jang?
what role is the Federal Government playing in ensuring an end to the crisis?
when will security operatives become fully and unconditionally operational in their duties in Jos?
It'll be too little to speak further and too much to point fingers, but in due time all man-made mystery is revealed
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