There is no doubt that President Buhari is ever ready to govern this country. But, while emphasis
are laid on war against the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-Eastern part of the country, is
the president doing anything different from previous administrations to address the increasing
acts of terrorism and ethnic cleansing in Plateau State?
In 2007, the late President Yar’adua inherited the Plateau crises from President Obasanjo.
Between the 8th and 9th of March, 2009, the residents of Dogo Na Hauwa in Plateau State woke
up to a horror beyond their wildest imagination where more than 500 women and children were
gruesomely hacked to death at night by Fulani herdsmen.
This was followed by myriads of other attacks, sacking entire communities like one would an
unproductive employee. The ailing president looked the other way as though Plateau State was
not a federating unit in Nigeria. He did little or nothing to address the core causes of the killings
besides deploying security personnel, some of whom were accused of participating in the
genocides and exhibiting total indifference to the situation of the defenceless victims. In fact,
they were only seen after the attacks taking statistics of damage done to lives and property like
some chartered statisticians.
The Jonathan administration came with some strong words which sparked hope in 2010. But as
soon as the elections were over in 2011, the killing spree resumed with a wider coverage to
include Benue, Taraba, Southern Kaduna, Nassarawa and some Gbagi settlements in Abuja. The
then president, who was overwhelmed by the Boko Haram insurgency seemed to have no idea of
the carnage that was going on in the villages of Plateau State particularly Riyom and B/Ladi
despite the deaths of serving senator, Gyang Dantong,
and Plateau Sate House of Assembly member, Gyang Danfulani. The president persisted in his
ignorance of the night attacks in the villages until his exit on the 29th of May. This ushered in
Baba Buhari as the Grand Commander of the Change Army who raised our hopes.
But the hopes are only proving to be transient. We are unspeakably perplexed by the coldness
that characterizes Mr. President’s disposition towards the systematic, well-orchestrated and
incessant massacres of Berom in the villages of Plateau State by Fulani herdsmen, officially
known as “unknown gunmen”. Aside our indefatigable president only dismissing the ugly trend
as “farmers/herdsmen clashes” in his most celebrated inaugural speech of “I belong to everyone,
I belong to no one”, he has not brought this issue to the front burner with the view to
investigating the actual causes, punishing the perpetrators and providing a long-lasting panacea
to it. The eight people killed by the gaseous escape in Jos received a presidential condolence but
the killings of hundreds, destruction of farms and sacking of villages in Plateau have not. With due respect to His Excellency, it is by no means a clash when women and children are
hacked to dead or shot at in their farms. It is terrorism. It is massacre. It is genocide.
While it would appear that President Yar’adua swore to a code of silence to the sustained
annihilation of whole villages on the Plateau, President Jonathan seemed to have sworn to a
code of ignorance. The pertinent question begging for answer is, to which of these codes has our
respectable and amiable president pledged his allegiance? The presidential code of silence or the
code of ignorance? Is there a hidden clause that forbids presidents from addressing the Plateau
matter? Baba Buhari obviously has the political will and commands the requisite respect to end
this abuse of humanity. So what is preventing him from taking immediate action as he is rightly
doing with other terrorising attacks in the country?
It may, at first glance seem like this is a Plateau problem, but there were instances where, out of
rage, the victims of these attacks blocked highways and attacked innocent travellers. This is by
no means a justification for any act of carnage. My point is that we must not wait like we did
with the issue of Boko Haram when it was at its embryonic stage, only to be proactive when it
became a hydra-headed monster which sought to consume us all. With the killing of any
Nigerian citizen in Nigeria or elsewhere, we lose our humanity when we stay aloof.
Those close to the president, please inform him that Plateau State needs urgent presidential
attention. Community policing and collaboration have stemmed the occurrences of crises in Jos
and environs, but not the unabated daily killings in the villages of Riyom, Bokkos and Barkin Ladi.
We either collectively speak as Plateau people and bring an end to these insane killings now or
forever remain silent. https://talk2yohanna./2015/08/20/berom-massacre-an-extension-of-boko-haram-and-jihad-in-grand-style/

Tot the easterners say it was the northerners plan to destrupt GEJ tenure...with boko haram.....#politics#

Things don get out of hands now......well the fight is intense now........Pray for the military n PMB

gowon should go and ask God for forgiveness because of his role in biafraland.until then karma will continue

Not to worry, Lord Bubu will offer them amnesty soon enough!

its a big problem

even the Berom are guilty of using militias to kill and intimidate road uses and local Hausa/Fulani population

my Grandparents country Home in DU close Jang village was burnt by them and hundreds murdered just few weeks ago, A Nigerian air force officer was killed by Berom militias when the attack bicichi

nwannaeto:
gowon should go and ask God for forgiveness because of his role in biafraland.until then karma will continue

Both retired and serving generals from Plateau state hardly speak up about these killings.

Gowon and co must be dying inside. #payBack?

one day hmm, but in Nigeria one day seems like forever.

I think you are saying the truth.

ERODEDEAST:
ALL THE CRISIS REPORTED AS FULANI HERDSMEN ARE NOT, BUT BOKOHARAM DON'T BE DECEIVED