ABUJA (Sundiata Post) General TY Danjuma didn’t say anything that’s not already in the public domain; he only echoed the prevailing narrative in the Middle Belt.
Questioning the neutrality of the military is a familiar narrative of the elite, moreover.
Buhari once referred to the military assault on Boko Haram as an attack on the North.
Borno elders similarly accused the military of killing innocent citizens in the state and infamously called for the withdrawal of the military from the state.
The notorious ethnic bigot, Nasir el-Rufai, called the Nigerian army a Jonathanian army and an Ijaw army. He accused them of killing Fulani people and memorably warned that the military was taking a blood debt that the Fulani would avenge in the future.
The problem is that these political elites only seem to care about military complicity, inaction, and outright collusion when their people are the perceived victims.
For several years the people of Plateau and Southern Kaduna were crying about how military personnel stationed in those areas would watch passively as armed herdsmen killed, maimed, and burned.
Sometimes, according to numerous reported accounts, the soldiers would shadow and cover the gunmen and then block locals who mobilized to confront the killers. Other times, the military would conveniently show up right after villages had been razed to the ground and their inhabitants killed, maimed, and displaced.
All these years, as the people of Plateau, Southern Kaduna and lately Benue and Adamawa reeled out evidence of military bias, complicity, and curious actions and inactions, TY Danjuma remained silent.
He only spoke out when the carnage got to Taraba, his home state.
The question is, how long has he been aware of the military’s bias and collusion with armed herdsmen/bandits? Why is he just speaking out now?
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