BREAKING NEWS: IN NIGERIA THE MOURNERS BECOME DANCERS IN BENUE
Just three days ago, Benue was soaked in blood.Over 200 innocent souls, mostly women and children, were slaughtered in cold blood in a supposed IDP camp, a place that was meant to be a shelter, not a slaughterhouse Families cried. Communities wailed.
The world watched in horror. Yet today, June 18th, the people who were supposed to be in mourning, in sackcloth, silence, and sorrow, are out on the streets in APC-branded attires, clapping, dancing, and cheering as if it’s a victory rally.
They say President Tinubu is coming to console the state. But let’s be honest…Is this a condolence visit or a political carnival? And more importantly, who is deceiving whom?
From Mourners to Mascots? This is the ultimate tale of foolishness. People who buried their loved ones just days ago have now become cheerleaders for a government that watched them die in silence. Instead of asking tough questions;Where was the President when we were being butchered?Why has security failed us again and again?When will justice come for the slain?
They’re forming processions, dancing, and spreading campaign-colored wrappers on the streets.The Theatre of Self-DeceitThe worst betrayal isn’t what outsiders do to us, it’s what we do to ourselves.Benue is not just bleeding from bullets and machetes, it is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds of silence, ignorance, and sycophancy.When your governor’s aides issue letters calling for “colourful processions” instead of declaring days of mourning, when the streets become loud with drums instead of quiet with reflection, when political clothes replace black mourning wrappers, that’s not healing, that’s humiliation.
So Who’s Fooling Who? Are the people of Benue trying to deceive Nigerians or are they just deceiving themselves? Are they telling the world that all is well, even as mass graves are still fresh? Or is this just another case of bread and wrapper politics, where lives are exchanged for rice, T-shirts, and party loyalty?
