Murdered For Daring To Condole a Bereaved Family:

A corrupt-free Nigeria in which fulani feel no qualms gunning down well-wishers on condolence visit to their (fulani) residence; a Nigerian in which cow dungs float on the streams and lakes from which villagers get their drinking water and are, daily, either killed or intimidated on their farms by armed fulani herdsmen to the deafening silence of the President and the presidency ...is as meaningless to those villagers and other concerned citizens as good music is to the deaf -like me.

Three days ago, in Taraba state, a fulani man came out with a gun and shot to death four Tiv men among those who visited a hausa/fulani compound to condole a family that had lost two of its members to armed robbers along a feeder road in the area. Not many may be aware of the horrendous experiences to which Fulanis have continued to subject our villagers-from 2011 when they took up arms and invaded many communities in the Middle Belt-since the happenings are mainly in areas with either poor access roads or where there are no individuals willing to speak for their people. Let it be known to whoever might read this piece that the Fulanis' murderous impunity against our farmers has not abated; the killings are going on silently in the hinterlands of many states.
Obviously, to the president and his handlers, if the killing of 14 persons in the same Taraba state on 15 September 2015 and another 20 persons in plateau state less than 48 hours earlier could not move anyone in the presidency to at least issue a statement condemning such terrorist acts then why should anyone think the killing of four Tiv men on a condolence visit to a hausa/fulani family deserves any form of reaction from the seat of power? But to those whose consciences are sensitive to horror, suffering and pains, such a cold-blooded act of murder is an assault on mankind's inherent conception of "human felling". This perspective alone presents enough reasons for a govt that is manned by conscientious people to act on the matter to, at least, demonstrate to the public that this govt is "for nobody but for everybody".