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A man identified as Chima Amadi has revealed that Former governor, Gabriel Suswam, who was recently arrested by the Department of state security services, DSS, once engaged in a gun battle with Fulani Herdsmen.

Amadi, took to Twitter to narrate how Suswam also predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari would have him arrested. PoliticsNGR has gotten his tweets, read them below;

Suswam stilled his look at me and took a deep sigh and said “Doc, I am certain that Buhari will arrest me very soon, not because of any corruption but because he knows I know too much about these killings. He won’t stop the killings”.This was in 2016 but first a background. Thread

I was just settling down in London in 2016 as a Chevening Scholar at the London School of Economics when I got a desperate call from a friend who is from Benue. She was weeping and told me stories of ongoing massacres in her village by Herdsmen with no one reporting them while

CSOs and influencers went silent. She said no one wanted to speak up cos they all supported the new govt of PMB. I informed her that I also campaigned and support the govt but that was no reason to condone the kind of murders that she just described. I promised to get back to her

And started surfing the net for any information on ongoing killings in the Benue. True to what she told me, information was scanty with only untrustworthy blogs and citizen reporters alluding to anything of the sorts. The Benue state Gov Ortom himself was singing the praises of

The new govt. knowing who this friend was, I knew she was not one to raise a false alarm especially when she had told me that five of her uncles in the village had already Benn hacked to death. She sent me picture evidence via WhatsApp. I made some calls back home but most

The usual vocal voices were not interested. The opinion then was that the outgone govt of GEJ messed up and it would take time for things to come back to normal esp as there were signs that the Boko Haram terrorists were being repressed and overwhelmed by the new admin.

However, when I saw more pictures and videos, this time of pregnant women being disemboweled by the herdsman and some local youths engaging in Cannibalism( roasting and eating a herdsman), I knew I had to act. I flew into Nigeria the next week and started putting in place

A CSO Colloquium on the crises . My approach was to use my networks and connections to get prominent figures from both divides to come speak in a nationally televised event. The Sec-Gen of the Miyyeti Allah is someone I have known very closely for over 20 years.

I then reached out to some Benue Citizens and that was how I contacted Gabriel Suswam, the former Gov of Benue state. After a few hiccups we finally met late one night in his home. What he told me was chilling. Due to National Security concerns I will not reveal certain aspects

Of our discussion, but he was very bitter. He said during the transition between GEJ’s govt and the incoming PMB administration, he was summoned to the Villa and GEJ took him to the then President -Elect. GEJ told PMB in Suswam’s presence that he wants only one favor from PMB

He told PMB that he didn’t care if he was probed or if his administration’s efforts at national development was reversed but PMB should please do something for him. According to Suswam,GEJ informed PMB that the brewing Herdsmen crises could eclipse the BH insurgency in its

Ramifications and implications for national cohesion and that if not tackled with expediency Nigeria may not recover.He said he had set up a committee chaired by Suswam to travel round the world looking for solutions and that they now fully have a plan that can resolve the issue

Once and for all. He begged PMB to invite Suswam for talks and to look at the recommendations of that committee. Suswam told me that he was made the Chair of the committee for an incident that happened in his state. Sometime in 2014, herdsman had sacked whole villages, killed,

raped women and burnt farms and homes of communities in rural areas in Benue. He said he didn’t believe the reports he was getting until he started seeing refugees pouring into Makurdi. One day, he mobilized his entourage which included policemen, press, soldiers and others

And proceeded to see things for himself in those communities. He said when they got to a few kilometres to the village the soldiers in his convoy, acting on instructions from HQ refused to proceed any further but he insisted on continuing. Ten minutes into the trip all hell was

Let loose. They were ambushed by Herdsmen and a battle ensued. A barrage of gunshots was unleashed on them from all sides. He said there were over 100 well-armed Herdsmen shooting at them. Done in the convoy retreated but he was already in the middle and so decided to fight for

His life. He took an AK from one of the retreating mopol men and with a few others that remained with him faced the Herdsmen fire for fire. He told me he was a trained marksman having lived in the US. In the process, two one of his security aides were shot but they continued

Fighting until the Herdsmen retreated. He said he left for Markurdi and returned the next day fully prepared and saw how villages had been taken over by cows. This time, the Herdsmen didn’t shoot him and some of them pulled out their phones and were snapping him. He decided

There and then that if he did nothing Benue would be overrun. He took actions that saw to a curtailing of the actions of these killers. It was against this backdrop that GEJ made him the chairman of the Committee. I am tired now. When I get some rest I will narrate the encounter

Between Suswam and PMB and why the latter feared for his life. keep a date . Sorry for any typos pls.

https://politicsngr.com/ex-governor-suswam-engaged-gun-battle-fulani-herdsmen-details/

it will never be well with pmb

This is shocking! Its a pity some people choose to live in denial, TY Danjuma, an ex COAS has accused the armed forces of aiding and abetting the murderous herdsmen yet people are doubting him.
NASS should impeach this president asap before its too late.

i remember the attack on the Governor's convoy, the Army escort had refused to engage because there were no orders from their superiors. that was the day Suswam learnt what it is like to be dead, and that was the time he ran to Abuja for help

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i also remember how slow he reacted to the killings in the remote parts of the state, especially in Guma and Makurdi local Government, even when the crises had found its way into the heart of makurdi where the locals had turned to killing both Fulanis and Hausas, the Government was quiet about it, i remember as a student i had to run for my own dear life when the north bank part of makurdi became a marathon track.

maybe the crises has to hit the elite sooner to get quicker reaction.

Enough of this violence!

Hmm

A paid fool trying to exenorate Suswam of sponsoring killers in Benue State and to also discredit PMB's effort in curbing the killings. God punish you there.

Nigeria jaga jaga

Na una know

We all know cowhari knows about the killings, his body language says a lot about it all, and the lackadiscal attitude too.

The most annoying thing is the zombie still defending this vampire of a government.

Anyone who plans of voting this tyranical government needs his head examined, more reasons I don't pity them in the north, they wanted a vampire in government, so they should deal with the outcome

Only with your eyes will you see the end of the wicked...

The evil and bloodthirsty characters responsible either directly or indirectly for the carnage and bloodletting will not go unpunished.

If not in this life, then in the one that is to follow...

Amazing

Death, Destruction and Hopelessness as Dividends of Democracy

This is dangerous. Why is everyone keeping quiet?

Wow I didn't even read the whole story book

No wonder he was arrested by DSS afterwards.

In buhari's mind "who are you to stand up against my cowhari terrorists?"


VOTE OUT APC IN 2019 BY ALL MEANS!!!

I prophesy that by this time next year, we will all look back, heave a great sigh of relief, and wonder how God delivered us from our enemies.

All our mourning shall be turned to joy and we shall worship and serve this great Jehovah in this nation called Nigeria.

The red sea shall swallow all the Egyptians and we shall see them no more again forever. Amen

just a mistake we can correct by 2019.

Balyz:
All Lies

By the name of the Most High God of of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, through His only begotten Son, Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord and Saviour of the Universe, I decree gruesome death upon you and your co-travellers in this deliberate attempt to downplay the killings of peoples, simply because they are not of your Muslim faith, in the mighty name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ... AMEN!!!

Fellow Christians, can someone respond to this prayer with a powerful AMEN in block letters?

Hmmmm, that's serious.

Nigeria has a terrorist as a President!
Wow!

I seriously laugh at those who think that this is just about herdsmen farmers clashes,that attacks are spontaneous or out of provocation.
This is a long thought out Jihad and the script is followed judiciously while the authorities in abuja are looking the other way for obvious reasons.
We are just postponding the evil day...it is in times of peace we prepare for war,those who have ear let them hear,'who is this uncircumcised son of...that he shall defy the soldiers of the living God!
Live ordinarily die ordinarily!

War film kpshi kpshi skpish.....

So all these happened under Jonathan regime but no one deem it fit to blame nor accused him of sponsoring Heardmen.

It's on record that since herdsmen/Farmer clashes started no President has ever visited to condole with Benue people till Buhari did. Yet ignorant fo.ols believes this problem started under Buhari.

Soon, every individual sponsoring this calamity will share from it.

RIP to the dead

boo.hari orchestrated the whole plan himself, remember when he made this statement ''Aug 27, 2001 - Lagos - A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of 'total' Islamic law across the country, reports said on Monday.... "I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria''

Chima? My Igbo brother. That name should not be taken seriously. They speak with both sides of the mouth. They exaggerate issues for personal gain. mtcheeeew

Suswam was smart to know he would be arrested and charged for corruption. Chima is speaking too little too late

I pity Osibanjo
I pity Christians in the Nigeria military who know
what's happening but won't talk.
I pity we Nigerian youths who hv allowed ethnic and
tribal differences to blind us to the fact that Nigeria
is drifting.

yes, GEJ may not have tackled corruption, but at least people were alive.

We all know all these even before d election of pmb. Is a promise fulfilled by him as a campaign. If we should tell our story nobody ll believe us.

lol....this sounds very very very true true..