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Jos Genocide, David Jonah Jang and the Rest of Us By Abbas Yushau Yusuf
The return of massacres of innocent citizens is uncalled for and very ridiculous, is David Jonah jang above the law. Reprisal attacks are yet to be staged in other cities of the north but that does not meant other people in those states are not angered with the going on the plateau but to showcase that silence is the best answer to a fool according to a wise saying One thing very irritating is while the plateau is there burning to ashes most of the northern governors and some of their colleagues from the south converged in Kano to celebrate the coronation of Malam Ibrahim Shekarau as the Sardauna The Jos genocide backed by the plateau state government since December 2008 is ridiculous, the federal government under Umaru Musa Yaradua did not take drastic action when the crisis erupted in December 2008 but ridiculously after a year the crisis is here again. Will Nigeria be the one political entity as it is suppose to be, governor David Jang has shown to the federal government that he is above the law because he did not take the blood of other innocent citizens resident in the state as sacred thereby allowing it to be shed without taking necessary action. The issue of terrorism being campaigned by superpower s of the world has gotten its firm root here in Nigeria and plateau state in particular where the terrorist David Jonah jang held sway. This is because Farouk Motallabs case is myopic compared to that of Jonah jang who was empowered constitutionally to secure his state as the chief security officer of plateau state but to no avail. But allowed innocent citizens that came from a section of the far north to be massacred since 2008 to today. Is president Yaradua not constitutionally empowered like president obasanjo who removed the former terrorist Joshua dariye through an emergency rule in may 18 2004 after the massacres in yelwan Shandam of innocent Muslims just because they profess a wrong religion and a wrong ethnic group. Chief Olusegun obasanjo took that action no matter whose ox is gored but to ensure the corporate existence of the federal republic of Nigeria. The legacies left by the previous leaders that govern the federal republic of Nigeria have been abandoned by the present ones, this is the spirit of accommodation tolerance and respect, when the late Sardauna was alive and the monolithic north is under him he accommodated all into his cabinet irrespective of someone’s religious affiliation but all the woes associated with the so called middle belters are blamed on the core north thereby ejecting there people from the plateau. Since the beginning of the present massacre none of the traditional rulers came out to condemn the heinous act even the chairman of the supreme council of Islamic affairs did not say anything to calm down the frayed nerves what a of Kano when most of their people are been massacred mercilessly without any apology from their counterpart David Jonah Jang the most violent governor of the year. The kangaroo panels set up by the federal and plateau state government should be scrapped and the federal government must ensure justice to the bereaved and the cheated if not the prediction of a possible collapse of Nigeria in the year 2020. |