Senator Ben Murray-Bruce (PDP – Bayelsa East) has taken a silent dig at popular lawyer, Festus Keyamo (SAN) over his views on the missing Dapchi girls.
Recall that the dreaded Boko Haram Islamist terror group last Monday invaded Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, after which 110 girls were declared unaccounted for.
Taking to his Twitter handle on Monday morning, Keyamo had accused some politicians of trying to score cheap political points by latching onto the kidnapping story to create discord.
He said, “The Dapchi incident is a national calamity that should unite us all in d quest for a solution. But some pple treat it as a political point gained in d struggle for power. The same pple who doubted d Chibok incident, now scream more about d Dapchi incident all because of politics.”
He followed it up a few hours later with three more tweets, “In 2014, some of us called 4 public anger on d Chibok saga because d govt’s handlers played politics by blaming an opposition governor & even called it a ‘scam’. It took 2 weeks to even react from Abuja. But some now prefer to conveniently forget these, still because of politics.
“Calamities like d Dapchi incident (& d various mass shootings in USA) may happen even in d most vigilant of govts. The difference lies in d REACTION of govts to these incidents. A govt that accepts the challenge it faces needs the support of all, not the one that calls it a scam.
“The real hypocrisy lies in those who continue to insist Chibok is a scam, whilst insisting that Dapchi happened – views dictated by d different govts under which both happened. For us, both are national calamities 4 which we must find urgent solutions. Period. That is consistency.”
But Ben Bruce appeared to accuse the senior advocate of double standards when he munched what appeared to be the lawyer’s reaction to the Chibok girls kidnapping of April 2014 under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ben Bruce tweeted:
He captioned the munched tweets: Read and come to your own conclusions!