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Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by isaacfreeman99(m): 8:36pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
AMB. HAGHER’S OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU 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 Iyorwuese Hagher
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Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by isaacfreeman99(m): 8:38pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
suen and mynda44 pls take this to front page. |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by HeyCorleone(m): 8:45pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
This us the season of open letters. Every daft person reacted to the President's reckless son's accident with so much sympathy and care as if he was a direct sibling but nobody is giving a voice or doing anything to stop the killings going on round the country, and caution the activities of these Fulani herdsmen. I think it's hightime Nigerians took laws into their hands. We should equip ourselves with arms. Since they want it bloody, we'd give them bloody. Every head of a house should have a good working gun. You see a Fulani cattle rearer, even if he doesn't pose a threat, gun him to pieces. The villagers should be ready to go slaughtering these MFs. Leave religion out of this. Christianity doesn't negate war. Check 1st Samuel for details. This is war. Red war. No time to fold arms. 2 Likes |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by BUHARItesticles: 8:58pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
Many thanks to Prof. Hagher. This issue is one of the issues he presented last year when we attended conference together. It's unfortunate that we have an insensitive administration. Social media is a powerful tool therefore sane Nigerians who are not ready to be bought with peanut should rise to wake this government for the sake of our children's future. 3 Likes |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by nwaanambra1(m): 10:56pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
its sad that i have to say this: the igbos called for total balkanization of this wicked contraption called Nigeria. kanu created awareness on the atrocities going on in Nigeria and called for the country to be split. i remember vividly how majority of this same benue indigens insulted him, called him all sorts of unprintable names and insisted on one Nigeria. Nnamdi kanu was hunted down and killed in broad day light by the /hausa-fulani Nigeria army and no body condemned the atrocity. sadly all the things nnamdi kanu said will befall Nigeria if the country is not split - are all happening now. bokoharam are killing Christians in the far north, Fulani herdsmen are killing Christians in the middle-belt - silently they are decimating the population of the northern Christians and the middle-belt Christians - pure and clear genocide is happening right under our noses and like the case of nnamdi kanu, NO ONE IS SPEAKING UP. WE THE IGBOS ARE TIRED OF BEING THE ONLY VOICE OPPOSING THE BRUTALITY AND WICKEDNESS OF THE NORTHERN OLIGARCH. ITS TIME EVERYBODY ANSWER HIS PAPA NAME BY STANDING UP AND DEFENDING THEMSELVES - IF YOU GUYS KEEP EXPECTING THE GOVERNMENT TO DEFEND YOU, THEN 3 YEARS FROM NOW THERE WILL BE NO ONE LEFT IN YOUR VILLAGES AND HOMES - YOUR ANCESTRAL LAND WILL BE MADE A GRAZING FIELD! YOU PEOPLE SHOULD RISE UP AND DEFEND YOUR SELVES! THE ONLY LANGUAGE THIS EVIL PEOPLE UNDERSTANDS IS VIOLENCE! FACE THEM WITH EQUAL VIOLENCE OR FOLD YOUR ARMS EXPECTING HELP FROM GOVERNMENT AND SEE YOURSELVES AND ALL THE THINGS YOU LOVED DESTROY! A MAN SHOULD RATHER DIE FIGHTING THAN STAND AND BE SLAUGHTERED LIKE GOATS! OF ALL THE ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA MORE THAN (300), WHY IS IT ONLY NDI IGBO THAT ARE OPENLY CONDEMNING THE ATROCITIES TAKING PLACE UNDER THE WATCH OF THE EVIL BUHARI! WE ARE GETTING TIRED OF FIGHTING ON BELF OF ALL OF YOU!! SHAME TO THE YORUBAS FOR SKULKING IN THE FACE OF THESE ATROCITIES! 2 Likes |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by doctokwus: 10:58pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
PMB is a danger to Nigeria's corporate existence, not just to our democracy, due to his bigotry,clannish tendencies and incompetence. 2 Likes |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by Nobody: 11:30pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
You guys are writing letters to the illiterate that can't read? 1 Like |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by mighty2: 11:39pm On Jan 06, 2018 |
HeyCorleone:i support you.bible also support self defense.eye for eye and tooth for tooth |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by ekesimo(m): 12:10am On Jan 07, 2018 |
Nnamdi kanu warned about this doom and he was accused of hate speech. All the things he foretold, are they not gradually unfolding?. Una never begin dey see anything |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by dealslip(f): 12:35am On Jan 07, 2018 |
Honestly it appears PMB only came to supervise the eternal cleansing and decimation of Christians in the middle belt. It appears he has a personal vendatta against the people of the middlebelt and Christians. Has anyone wondered why this herdsmen don't operate in core Fulani and Hausa states. All the effort of Boko Haram and the Fulani's are on the Christians of the North. Even without shame, PMB will never comment, despite all the pressure on him to comment. Bosun Emmanuel was very right when he told Nigerians to be wary of the party APC. This issue is not about grazing, it is actually a systematic process of annihilating Christians from the North. 2 Likes |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by Nobody: 1:20am On Jan 07, 2018 |
You became Nigeria’s president on the altar of northern unity when the northern minorities abandoned President Goodluck Jonathan to vote for you. Afonjas of SW Afonjas of SE Afonjas of SS Make una hear oo Una Mimi Don do |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by mybestlove(m): 1:38am On Jan 07, 2018 |
"I take responsibility for anything that happens under my watch" Mohammed Buhari. Therefore, we hold him responsible for these massacre of Nigeria citizens. Really painful. And he says nothing, that's the worst of all. They blamed Jonathan that his nationwide speech on the Chibok movie was late but here, this nomad says absolutely nothing. See human beings butchered like meat. |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by 2cato: 3:10am On Jan 07, 2018 |
Omenkalives and omenka and ngeneukwenu bmc et al do you agree with the write up? Or should we blame gej and mama peace as usual |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by IamJames: 3:45am On Jan 07, 2018 |
It's really unfortunate. |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by modik(m): 4:13am On Jan 07, 2018 |
So long, too long... . Majek Fashek |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by Grundig: 4:52am On Jan 07, 2018 |
2cato:What nonsense question is this? The buck stops at gej's table. I blame him 110%. He is weak and ineffective. He must return to otuoke. |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by stonemasonn: 4:58am On Jan 07, 2018 |
I find it very surprising that the international community don’t see any thing wrong with what is happening in Nigeria. Where is Reuters where is the UN? Suddenly the international media that were active during the Chibok girls kidnap saga have lost their voices. |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by Yankee101: 5:41am On Jan 07, 2018 |
isaacfreeman99: Tell him please |
Re: Amb. Hagher’s Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Benue Genocide. by isaacfreeman99(m): 2:21pm On Jan 07, 2018 |
lalasticlala, mynd44 |
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