AMB. HAGHER’S OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMkMADU BUHARI ON THE BENUE GENOCIDE.
Jan 5th, 2018.
HIS EXCELLENCY,
President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR.
President and Commander-in-Chief
Of the Armed Forces of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja

Your Excellency Mr. President,
YOU HAVE BETRAYED DEMOCRACY AND PROMOTED GENOCIDE
I would have loved to wish you a happy new year, but I am not a hypocrite. I am not happy and nobody in Benue is happy today, because many of our citizens did not have a happy new 2018. Genocide on citizens of Nigeria has escalated in earnest in Benue State. This genocide has turned their happiness to nightmare and death. Let me also apologize for making this letter public. It is not in my character. In this case there is an emergency and urgency, which cannot wait.
I am pained that you ignored my advice in my private memorandum to you dated 30th July 2016. I had warned you of the possibility of a horrendous genocide in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Southern Kaduna, and Southern Adamawa States. I asked you to be proactive and stop the genocide that has been ongoing but which would burst out in the open and shock the world within 18 months. Your office replied my letter on September, 28th 2016, and the reply was couriered to me in the United States, thanking me “immensely” and giving me the assurances that the advice would be heeded.
With the current situation on ground, I regret to now inform you that it is seventeen months since my warning and prediction and your government did nothing to pre-empt or prevent the genocide. The nomadic terrorists have finally accelerated the ethnic cleansing in Benue State. They have strategically moved against the Tiv, the largest minority ethnicity in northern Nigeria. These perpetrators believe that if they can ethnic cleanse the Tiv, then nobody can stand in their way to possess the land and carve a new geo-polity and demography for the middle-belt.
1. Now that you have allowed the genocide in the Middle Belt to go on unimpeded you have betrayed your campaign promise to Nigerians that your government ‘‘will always act in time and not allow problems to irresponsibly fester’’. In allowing the Benue genocide to take place your government has acted irresponsibly and has allowed problems to fester and failed to act on time. You have also failed to lead from the front; giving the impression that centrifugal forces around you are dictating vicious anti-people agenda!

2. Mr. President, the protection of lives and property of the citizens is more important than your war against corruption! The protection of lives of citizens is the most sacred responsibility of the state and your presidency. Your government has failed woefully in this regard. Mr President there is no greater corruption than the government looking the other way while the strong bullies and kills the weak with impunity and pleasure!
3. Your Excellency, in your passion (monomania, I think!) to rid the country of corruption, you have totally ignored nation building and ended up with a very divided country. You have failed your immediate Northern constituency by your inability, failure or lack of the political will to end northern poverty through measures that enhance school enrolment, promote girl-child education, and revive dead industries. You became Nigeria’s president on the altar of northern unity when the northern minorities abandoned President Goodluck Jonathan to vote for you. You have now desecrated that altar. By refusing to arrest those that brutally butchered defenseless innocent Benue women and children, you have imperiled northern unity and taken sides with evil.
4. Many Nigerians think you have failed the country by the lack of a clear vision and a lack of capacity to provide needed infrastructure and a composite holistic development; more significantly, they think you have failed to institute a political culture of integrity. You are often compared with the lone King Sisyphus of Ephyra who was punished by the gods to roll an immense border up the hill, only to watch it roll back down, then condemned to repeat the same rolling action forever. This is the picture people have in mind of your war against endemic corruption. You honestly deserve pity and prayers, but certainly not support for a second term.
5. Nobody can deny that you still have a horde of admirers, which still look up to you with great admiration; however, the Benue genocide seriously questions your integrity, and your capacity to lead a plural modern state. Is there a rule of law in this country? Why does the Miyetti Allah act with so much impunity? Is this because this terrorist group claims you as their life patron? Do not accept the clamor of those who for their personal political reasons urge you to contest in the 2019 election to be a second term president! Mr. President, please rise above the impression being given that you are just another power obsessed and hungry politician!
6. Step aside and open the political space for another person to continue your war against corruption with a more comprehensive development program that Nigeria needs and deserves. For now, modernize infrastructure and try to banish poverty. And while your party campaigns for 2019, take a sabbatical from partisanship and build national unity, good governance and concentrate on getting rid of Boko Haram and the Herdsmen Terrorists. After all, great people are not great for winning elections; rather they are known to be great by the legacy they leave behind. With what legacy do you wish the country to remember you for? It is unfortunate that family members of those that were hacked to death will remember you as the genocide president!
Your Excellency Mr. President,

I remain respectfully Sir,

Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher. Ph.D. OON. FSONTA, FIMC, CMC.

President African Leadership Institute USA.
Former High Commissioner to Canada
Former Ambassador to Mexico
Former Minister (2 times)
Former Constitutional Conference member
and 2nd Republic Senator

Hmmmm what can one say....let those who applaud him accompany it with loud singing. Sad!

Buhari must face ICC for all this genocide

Well said.

Of course mr. president's team of praise singers led by liar mohammed will find a way of making ridicule of this letter, and totally ignore the ringing truth in it.

A life patron of an organisation specialised in killing people. What a president we have?

Nice.
One reason it's always good to voice support for politicians responsibly is so that you can also muster the courage to castigate them when they go wrong. If you've always praised them to the high heavens and sworn that nothing they do can make you feel otherwise about them, you've shackled yourself for life. Omenka aka Omenkalives has not been able to issue a word of condemnation to the apparent I-don't-care attitude of the FG, so that he doesn't get tagged as a "wailer". What a shame.

We can still see Soyinka, Falana, Bakare criticise Buhari's actions and in-actions to keep him on his toes, but Omenkalives will never do that. See how his kinsmen are being decimated and he's writhing in pain, but can't voice it!

Hope all diz letter writers know dat buhari is an illiterate dat cant read nor write.

This era has shown dat buhari is a failure from d womb

the north would be the theatre during the next civil war in Nigeria, caused and to be spearheaded by buhari.

there is no atrocity or crime this govt hasn't committed.

Genocide - the commission of certain acts with interest to destroy in whole or in parts a nation, tribe, racial or religious groups. the acts are killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily or mental damage, forcing the group to live in conditions that may bring about their extinction in whole or parts.

Crimes Against Humanity - they are certain acts committed as part of a wide spread or systematic attack against any civilian population. the acts include terror, murder, slavery, rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced disappearance etc.

War Crime - willful killing, torture, intentionally causing great suffering, hostage taking, extensive destruction and looting of property, unlawful deportation and confinement.

is buhari not supposed to be hanged and his body left in the desert to decay

Buhari has turned Nigeria from a zoo to an abbatoir where innocent blood is spilled daily on the altar of Buhari wickedness ..

SalamRushdie:
Buhari has turned Nigeria from a zoo to an abbatoir where innocent blood is spilled daily on the altar of Buhari wickedness ..

that is because his ambition is 'worth the blood' of every non-fulani herdsman...