Sweet sour notes from T.Y Danjuma

By Joseph Edgar…

He has been reported to allege that some elements within the Army have been in unholy partnership with those killing and maiming our people. He was quoted to have also asked us to start defending ourselves against these mass murderers since it is beginning to look like the structures of states saddled with this responsibility seems no longer to have the resolve to perform their constitutional duties.

The Army has immediately come out with a defence wondering what the game plan of the respected General is and denying categorically the allegations and further restating its willingness and ability to protect all Nigerians irrespective of creed and ethnicity.
Well, as is usually the case with things like these, analysts and observers have gone beside themselves in running away from addressing the issues raised by the respected General but have decided to go into a fruitless dig up of the Generals past antecedent in a bid to discredit him. This penchant for the comedic always leaves me in fits of laughter as you would be seeing otherwise very sane gambits struggle to beat themselves in the race to see who is more stupid.

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Within 24 hours of Danjuma’’s speech, we have been told of how he killed Ironsi and of how he had been rewarded with oil blocks making him one of the richest Nigerians ever. We have also been told of his role in the continued genocide in the hills and plateaus of his native Taraba. All sort of stories around his personality have been flying without as much as looking critically as to his statement and why he was making the statement.
Kudos must be given to the Army authorities and Professor Itsay sagay who took up the issue headlong.

For the learned, and sometime flippant Professor, he has told us that the constitution guarantees communal defence and also self-defence to save one’s life, thereby stating that the General was not far off the mark in his position. The rest have suddenly become historians , running rings around themselves as if the alleged killing of Ironsi by one Major Danjuma would solve the issue of herdsmen who have been running wild and spilling blood everywhere.

The same thing happens whenever Obsaanjo talks. We are suddenly reminded that he slept with his daughter in-law and that he raised down Odi. The man simply said that the level of nepotism in this administration was just too much. Simple. Address it.
So in trying to distract our attentions with a rigmarole and a crazy drive around history in the face of clear and present danger as exacerbated by the statesman throws up a classic ostrich case. Because as we continue to dig into the history books, thousands of lives are being lost to marauders who see nothing in bringing out babies from their mother’s wombs with blunt knives.

We are a country that hates to confront the truth. The level of massacres is reaching proportions that would soon make the killing fields of Cambodia a child’s play and still we have not seen one person docked for these murders as if they are being carried out by dark and invisible angels.

The issue is not Danjuma, the issue is the evil being perpetrated by these miscreants and how we can put it to an end. That’s all.

 

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