By Moses Ochonu
ABUJA (Sundiata Post) IGP Idris appeared before the Senate today and lied about the cause of the herdsmen-farmers conflict raging across the country. Like the Defensive Minister, Dan-Ali, the IGP blames the crisis on the implementation of the anti-open grazing law, which exists in Ekiti, Benue, and Taraba.
One wonders whether these guys are reading from the same conspiratorial script supplied by Miyetti Allah or are just lazy thinkers who cannot see the fallacy in their rhetoric.
Doesn’t simple chronology and causal logic falsify this claim? In the field of history, we have a chronological causal axiom: if “A” happened before “B” then B couldn’t have caused A. There was no anti-open grazing law in Benue when the Agatu massacre happened. There was no anti-grazing law in Taraba when the killing of herdsmen by the Mambilla militia occurred and when other more recent killings and reprisal killings happened there.
There is no anti-open grazing law in Plateau and Kaduna, yet armed herdsmen have been killing people and sacking villages across Plateau and Southern Kaduna for almost a decade.
There is no anti-open grazing law in Adamawa, and yet killings and reprisal killings between Bachama farmers and Fulani herders happened and continue to happen there.
Zamfara has no anti-open grazing law but the state is arguably the most devastated by the herdsmen-farmers violent conflict and by associated rural banditry.
This is precisely why problems don’t get solved in Nigeria. Public officials cling stubbornly and tragically to easily discredited and patently false narratives of causality. Often, this false narrative corresponds to what they assume to be the incumbent president’s position and departs from a truthful explanation that they assume would annoy their principal and get them in trouble.
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