Pegasus Reporters Issues on the Wing
By: Otono Muhammad
The Nigeria flag ought to Fly Half Mast over the Bornu massacre of 43 innocent farmers whose crime was their going to farm to harvest and feed the nation. They are no liabilities but assets to the nation as FARMERS who cultivate, plant, weed, harvest and distribute their produce for the food sufficiency and survival of the nation’s Economy. Is anyone not seeing this dastard war on farmers by Boko Haram as one among other factors for the recession?
*Bornu Massacred farmers.
Imagine, a TV documentary last week showcased an IDP camp in Maiduguri, Bornu state where dozens of teenagers in their numbers were being prepared to leave the IDP camp for their homes but most sadly and tears inviting, is that many of the children (spoke in Hausa) confessed they were going home to find no parent, orphaned. One said in his presence they killed his father and two brothers. Who now runs the affairs of these children to be responsible citizens than turning out to be liabilities in the long run and obstacle to societal peace in future?
As we mourn and exchange condolences over the pogrom of the recent Bornu farmers who paid the ultimate price for going out to earn a living by their hand and sweat, we may not be privilege to visit their graves to lay flowers deserving of martyrs and heroes but in our own corners as fellow citizens let’s light up a candle for their evergreen memories (mine is burning already).
Well, for those that were cut down, by the knowledge upon which I stand they are considered as martyrs. Here, for us as faithful from God we come and to Him is our return. We pray for the reposed souls of the dead forty-three (43) farmers, they died martyrs in the hands of cowards. And for our Armed Forces too, they deserve our collective prayers, it’s said that what is seen in the physical came from the spiritual realm, God protect them as they advance to quench this painful wahala ravaging our dear country and Northeast in particular and Nigeria in general.
As we mourn and exchange condolences over the pogrom of the recent Bornu farmers who paid the ultimate price for going out to earn a living by their hand and sweat, we may not be privilege to visit their graves to lay flowers deserving of martyrs and heroes but in our own corners as fellow citizens let’s light up a candle for their evergreen memories (mine is burning already).
Lastly, KALAMULLAH (World of God) and the World itself shall not disconnect from the workaholic Chief Servant of Bornu state, Professor Babagana ZULUM, irrespective to faith and place of residence in Nigeria we are all seeing, hearing and feeling his undying effort to salvage and better his people in peace, human capacity building and physical development.
His Excellency, Governor Zulum has always demonstrated the portrait of people’s welfarist leadership and assured, with the WORD, all these distracting bizarrely acts and Shaitan (Satan) fancied shenanigans will be history in a while. In shaa Allah!
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Otono Muhammad writes from muhaotono1@gmail.com and lives in Abuja, Nigeria.
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