By Farooq A. Kperogi I just came across Amnesty International’s report that last night, at least 51 innocent souls were butchered in Zikke ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi
I just came across Amnesty International’s report that last night, at least 51 innocent souls were butchered in Zikke village, Plateau State, by barbaric, homicidal armed marauders who left behind charred homes, blood-soaked soil, and shattered lives.
This comes just two weeks after 52 others were butchered, according to Amnesty International.
What kind of country watches its children, women, and elderly people slaughtered in their sleep, their homes set ablaze, and then responds with silence or sterile press releases?
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen a groundswell of national outrage over the continuing mass massacres on the Plateau. Are we becoming desensitized to murderous violence to the point that we ignore it?
Or is it something else? Whatever it is, it signals a heartrending moral collapse.
What we need in Plateau is the government's firm, decisive protection of the people from the untamed savagery of the murderous beasts. We also need justice, not predictably hollow rhetoric and empty condemnations.
The blood of the forgotten is crying out from the earth, and the silence of the rest of us is complicity.
Until you and Nigerians are prepared to put a name to the barbaric, homicidal armed marauders, nothing will change. We know who they are and why they are doing it but we insist to put our head in the ground
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