ILE IFE, ZAMFARA, BENUE, TARABA, JOS et al: OUR MUMU DON DO!

It is sad that life in Nigeria is cheap! It is sadder that some Nigerians deliberately choose to under-value or over-value any lost life based on whether or not the life shared the same religion, tribe or region with them! Thus, the value of any life unjustly taken here in Naija is a function of its social constituencies!

In March 2017, a lot of Muslim Hausa-Fulani traders were massacred in cold blood in Ile Ife, Osun State, reportedly after a quarrel between a Yoruba man and a Hausa man . Neither Buhari nor Osinbajo visited Ile Ife! Neither Oyedepo nor Adeboye uttered a single word! Neither CAN nor any CSOs raised any alarm! Neither Obasanjo nor Atiku visited! Neither America nor the Vatican issued a statement! Prof. Wole Soyinka's grammar took leave of him then or perhaps he caught a terrible cold then and hence couldn't issue his verbose statements of condemnation! In fact even Kwankwaso who visited Ile-Ife to offer personal assistance was tagged as a regionalist! Emir Sanusi who also summoned the valour to visit was not spared by unreasonable e-warriors!

Bandits (call them what you may) have also been horribly harvesting lives (of Muslims) in their hundreds in Zamfara. But some Nigerians chose to see nothing and hear nothing! 'Na dem dem' is their satanic, unpatriotic retort! America issued no statement! The Vatican said nothing! All of Oyedepos, Adeboyes, PDP, CAN, OBJ did not see any evil perpetrated there to warrant their statement or visit! No allegation of government conspiracy to kill muslims! Implausible. The head is a Muslim, abi? It doesn't fit the agenda/narrative!

Now, to the almighty, mother of all killings of Nigerians ( sorry, Christians) in JOS! The president had to send his VP pronto! He had to be there himself!Commendable! Oyedepo and Adeboye suddenly found out that murder is a sin against God in the Bible and hence discovered their holly voices which were nowhere to be found when Muslims were massacred in their own backyard( Ile Ife, Osun)-- talkless of faraway Zamfara or 'Bornu'! OBJ who could literally trek from his house to Ile-Ife and give his condolences chose not to do so (because the victims were low lifes)! Now the same OBJ flew a private plane all the way from Ogun to JOS to say sorry! Politics 101?! America now saw a need to issue a statement calling for restraint! Prof. Soyinka now just recovered from his terrible cold and deployed his limitless arsenal of vocabularies of condemnation on the "killings of Christians in JOS"! Commendable!

Yet, yet, yet going through the aforementioned discriminatory ways by which Nigeria, Nigerians and the international community reacted (differently) to condemnable killings of innocent Nigerians, one would think it is the muslims who should be complaining! But quite the opposite! Islam and Muslims are being blamed for a scourge they are the worst victims of ! Muslims are [co-]victims and are chief villains at the same time! Amazing! Yet Old, clichéd allegation of Islamization is thrown all over the place by people who ought to know better! Truly, I find it hard to reconcile Bishop David Oyedepo being a man of God and statements credited to him that "attacks going on in the north are only occurring in Christian communities because of 'an Islamization agenda'! If truly this statement comes from Bishop, then I have no apologies in saying that this Bishop is not a man of God! Because attacks in the North do not happen only in xtian communities. And islamization agenda is but a figment of the imagination of ungodly people!

As believers, every Nigerian owes it as a duty to seek the truth, say the truth and act on the truth! We'll sucessfully fight and defeat the murders and their sponsors in our midst the day we see any life lost as that of a Nigerian first and foremost without qualifying it as Muslim/Christian or Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa etc! This primordial qualifications make our human sense of empathy selective/discriminatory and thus empower the evil doers and normalize their evil actions in our psyche! We should remember that the Scripture asks us to love even our enemies! Let's learn to condemn evil regardless of who the perpetrators and victims are! This is the only way to shame the devil and have the Nigeria of our dream!

Wait ooh your brothers and sisters are coming to comment

All you mentioned. Did Christians attacked the Muslims in there homes?
We have had series of clashes in the north especially religiously motivated.
The difference is that some group seem not to have a permanent home such that if you call them wanderers, you are not mistaking thereby creating problems in a locality they found themselves.
They should allow the Christians to sleep with their two eyes closed na.