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Nigerian govt advises Danjuma on what to do instead of calling for anarchy

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Nigerian govt advises Danjuma on what to do instead of calling for anarchy

The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, has challenged T.Y. Danjuma to provide evidence of wrongdoing or dereliction of duty by Nigerian troops through the appropriate channels for necessary action instead of inviting anarchy in the country.

The minister was reacting to the recent statement credited to Danjuma, where he alleged that the Nigerian Army was colluding with herdsmen to kill Nigerian farmers.

Danjuma had during an event in Taraba State, asked the people to defend themselves and not to depend on the military to provide them with security, or safeguard their lives, in recurrent clashes between farmers and herders.

But responding in a statement by his Public Relations Officer, Col. Tukur Gusau, Dan-Ali described Danjuma’s statement as “highly uncalled for,” and an invitation to anarchy.

“On a recent comment by one of the elder statesmen alleging that the military colludes with bandits to kill people and calling on them to rise and defend themselves, this is highly uncalled for and it is an invitation to anarchy. It should be disregarded by well-meaning Nigerians.

“The Armed Forces are professional in discharging their constitutional mandate. Therefore, if anyone has evidence of wrongdoing or dereliction of duty against our troops, he should bring forward such evidence through the appropriate channels for necessary action,” Dan-Ali said.

Nigerian Army had also on Sunday described the comment by Danjuma as unfortunate and asked Nigerians to disregard it.

Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of Biafra has said that Danjuma’s call that Nigerians should defend themselves against killers was belated.

The group in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said that Danjuma’s statement was nothing but “crying over spilt milk.”

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In the press statement entitled, ‘Only if they had listened to him (Kanu) four years ago,’ IPOB said people like Danjuma rather called for the head of Kanu over his call for self defence by Nigerians who were massacred with impunity.

“What is happening before our eyes today was foretold by our leader many years back and had those in power in Abuja listened to him rather than lock him up without trial, thousands of innocent lives could have been saved across Nigeria.

“We state without any equivocation that all those killed by marauding Fulani herdsmen and the Nigerian military that provides them covert support died in vain because people like Danjuma initially supported the oppressors and vilified Mazi Nnamdi Kanu instead of paying careful attention to what he was saying.

“The same way the likes of Danjuma from the Middle Belt have woken up to the reality of the failed state that Nigeria has become, so will the South-East governors, Ohaneze Ndigbo and PANDEF do in the coming months,” IPOB said.

 

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