Fani-Kayode made the appeal while describing the manner in which Boko Haram killed the farmers as evil.
The former
Aviation Minister and the chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Femi
Fani-Kayode, has urged the federal government to declare a state of emergency,
following Boko Haram’s killing of rice farmers in Borno State.
The
insurgents had over the weekend beheaded some rice farmers in Jere Local
Government Area of Borno State.
Boko Haram
allegedly beheads 43 farmers in Borno, but the UN later claimed that 110 were
killed.
However, the
former minister in a series of tweets wrote: “110 Nigerians had their throats
slit and heads chopped off in a few hours & in a single location?
“The enormity
of this atrocity is simply astounding and it beggars belief.
“Their
killers then lay them in lines on the floor with their heads on their stomachs?
This is evil.
“We need to
declare a state of emergency in some states. If this barbaric atrocity by Boko
Haram had been committed in the south, the whole country and international
community would have been up in arms. Yet it has happened in Borno and the
outrage and disgust that has been expressed is minimal.
“Are we no
longer one nation? Are some lives more important than others? Each time anyone,
no matter where they come from in our country, is butchered it kills a part of
each and everyone of us. 110 heads chopped off and few seem to care? Enough of
this madness! Something must give!”
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