The senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district in the National Assembly, Sen. Ben Murray-Bruce has proffered a reason behind incessant attacks on farming communities by herdsmen in the country.
The senator made this known in a series of tweets on his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday morning.
Recall that 73 persons were reported killed by suspected herdsmen in Guma and Logo LGAs in Benue state on New Year’s Day, with other incidents recorded in Taraba, Southern Kaduna, Numan in Adamawa State, and some other places in recent times.
According to the lawmaker, the attacks have not stopped because no one has been successfully arrested, prosecuted and, if found guilty, executed for their actions.
He suggested that the herdsmen could not be successfully prosecuted because of perceived protection from the current administration under President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said, “Where there is impunity there can not be unity. Where there is injustice there cannot be settled peace. Where there is equality before the law there cannot be community between the people.
“Finally, where there is favoritism from the top there cannot be patriotism from the bottom.”
He added, “In the past three years Nigeria has sunk into barbarism not because of the thousands of death from killer herdsmen, but because of the fact that no one has been arrested, tried and sentenced or executed for these deaths.”
He tweeted:
Where there is impunity there can not be unity. Where there is injustice there cannot be settled peace. Where there is equality before the law there cannot be community between the people. Finally, where there is favoritism from the top there cannot be patriotism from the bottom.
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) January 24, 2018
In the past three years Nigeria has sunk into barbarism not because of the thousands of death from killer herdsmen, but because of the fact that no one has been arrested, tried and sentenced or executed for these deaths.
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) January 24, 2018