Governor Nyako accuses Jonathan administration of genocide against Northern Nigeria

Governor Nyako accuses Jonathan administration of genocide against Northern Nigeria


“The Administration has also hired militia from all across especially North Africa who have been deceived into accepting to come because they were made to believe that they would be fighting infidels.”

Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has accused the Federal Government of carrying out genocide against the people of Northern Nigeria.

The governor made the accusation in a memo titled “On-Going Full-Fledged Genocide in Northern Nigeria” which he sent to the northern states governors’ forum on April 16.

“While every State Government is doing everything possible using virtually all its resources to stem the tide of near disaster facing all of us especially in the North, it is a well-known fact that the present Federal administration has now become a government of impunity run by an evil-minded leadership for the advancement of corruption that is apparently enjoying the protection of the Federal administration,” Mr. Nyako said.

He said the government is using “mass murderers/cut-throats imbedded in our legitimate and traditional Defence and Security organizations” to carry out the genocide claims.

Mr. Nyako said the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is determined to create strife between Muslims and Christians in the north or between one ethnic group and another.

He accused the Federal Government of organizing the killing of citizens and then quickly attributing same to the Boko Haram sect.

“Cases of mass murders by its bloody minded killers and cut-throats are well known, but it attributes the killings to so-called Boko-Haram,” he said.

He also said militias backed by the government are responsible for the rampant kidnappings in the north.

Over a hundred school girls were abducted from their Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on Monday night.

Mr. Nyako said “these organized kidnappers must have the backing of the Federal administration for them to move about freely with abducted children just as those who convey ammunitions and explosives from the Ports to the safe-houses of so called Boko-Haram in the North”.

Attack on clergy and top government officials
The Adamawa Governor also accused the Federal Government of being behind the killing of some prominent clergy in the north or the attempt to assassinate some top government officials from the north.

“We no longer accept let alone believe that our prominent Mallams in the Mosques in Kano and Zaria have been killed by ‘innocent’ Boko-Haram members or Christians in the North, nor do we believe that the killing of the Pastor and other worshippers in the Christ Apostolic Church in Jimeta-Yola was done by any Muslim or Boko-Haram members.

“We know where we are now pointing our fingers. There have also been attempts to assassinate the Senate President (Northerner) in Imo State, two Executive Governors of States in the North (the Governor of Benue State and my humble self), two of our most prominent Traditional leaders (Shehu of Borno and the Emir of Kano), Senators and others too numerous to mention, all from Northern Nigeria,” he said.

Mr. Nyako also said Fulani communities in parts of the North who have been in their locations for over 100 years are now being raided and uprooted by paid killers within the Nigerian Army for the satisfaction of the federal administration instead of being protected as citizens with their rights and dignity safe-guarded.

“This has happened to those communities at Keana L.G. in Nasarawa State and Laddoga and Kachia in Kaduna State.

It is presently extended to Benue, Zamfara and Katsina States,” he said.

He also said that virtually all the soldiers of Northern Nigerian origin recently recruited to fight Boko-Haram have been deceived in that aspect.

“They are being poorly trained, totally ill-equipped, given only uniform and are killed by their trainers in Nigerian Army training centres as soon as they arrive in the Nigerian Army camps being used by so-called Boko-Haram insurgents. Virtually all the Nigerian Army soldiers killed/murdered in these operations so far are of Northern Nigerian origin.

“The Administration has also hired militia from all across especially North Africa who have been deceived into accepting to come because they were made to believe that they would be fighting infidels,” he said.

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