It would have been better if the President didn’t visit Benue – Dele Farotimi

Human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has stated that it would have been better if President Bola Tinubu had not visited Benue State on Wednesday, June 18. While speaking on Channels TV on Thursday, June 19, Farotimi said the only person who said anything of note during the presidents visit to Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Wednesday, was the Tor Tiv V, James Ayatse, who described the attacks as a calculated, well-planned, full-scale genocidal invasion and land grabbing campaign by herder terrorists and bandits. I must say very quickly that it would have been better if the president didnt go. The only thing worthy of anybodys time was the words of the Tor Tiv, who spoke extensively to the reality of the situation in the Benue trough and spoke eloquently to the pains of the victims.Other than that, all the president had to offer were mere windows into his preoccupation and what truly concerns his aides and assistants.he said Benue, a food-producing state in Nigerias North-Central zone, has been under heavy attacks by suspected herdsmen for a while. The killings have lingered for years, with some linking them to the quest for land dominance between the original agrarian dwellers and nomadic cattle rearers. Farotimi criticised the red-carpet reception the President got in Benue. In Benue, they knew exactly what was of importance to the president, so they ensured that they put up the necessary theatre for 2027. The de@th of over 200 people did not count much; they were mentioned only in passing, and you would have been excused that it was a political event.The primary reason the state exists is to protect the lives and property of the citizens. Weve almost lost our capacity to be shocked. 200 human beings were murdered, and the President went to Benue and was talking as if he were preparing for a campaign rally.It was more or less that they went to dance on the graves of some of whom may not even be identified. Let the state begin to protect the lives and property of the citizens. he saidThe post It would have been better if the President didn’t visit Benue Dele Farotimi appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.