To treat as contrary and buy-time under the pretense of a police investigation amounts to aiding and abetting known criminal gangs. To leave the dastard crime unprosecuted to its logical conclusion is to embolden a repeat onslaught that may tip the country’s beleaguered unity off the precipice.
The daredevil threat speaks to the crux of perennial crisis in the region and the seemingly complicit Nigerian state. Benue, much like Ortom, is no stranger to herder and farmer crises. Mutual distrust between rural crop farmers and cattle herders that are armed with AK-47 rifles has over the years led to mass killings and thousands displaced.
The Nigerian Police this week dispatched a team of investigators from Abuja, just after Ortom briefed the president on the assassination attempt. The special team has also “invited” Umar Amir Shehu for questioning. It calls to question the level of intelligence, if not insincerity, of the Nigerian Police investigation, and functions of the police command in Benue State.
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ShagaDaniel What is there to unravel? Did they not do a Press Release and paid for its dissemination? They are well known, but WHO will bell the cat?