Makinde: Double Standardisation Of Supports !! By Morufu Smith
Makinde: Double Standardisation of Supports !! By Morufu Smith.
In one breath, there’s a governor who actively supported and financially sponsored endsars protest because the officers of the endsars were alleged to have maimed and killed innocent citizens in his state, though there wasn’t a record of brutality of innocent citizens by SARS operatives during the young tenure of the Governor.
In another breath, the same governor is supporting the Fulani herders and their sponsors alleged to have been maiming and killing farmers in Ibarapa land, citing the Fulani’s constitutional freedom to live in any part of the country.
Why does the Governor not uphold the discretion of ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’ in the two circumstances? It smacks of evil pretence for a governor who prides himself as a populist person to look the other way while his citizens are being maimed and killed on the spurious ‘sin’ of investing in agriculture to make food and employment more abundant in the state. The said governor is underutilising the security architecture of the state as it would amount to being economical with the truth to conclude that the security apparatus in the state is being overwhelmed by the activities of the hoodlums allegedly terrorising the state on one hand and the Fulani herders/settlers allegedly terrorising farming communities across the state on the other hand.
What does the Constitution say about a group of people who is alleged to have been preventing law abiding citizens from going about their lawful business activities, making the earth a hell for them?
What’s the Constitution’s reactions to a group of people alleged to have been encroaching on people’s farms and parcels of land under the guise of free movement and freedom to go about their business activities while they destruct farm produces, maim and kill livestock and planting farmers on their rented or acquired farmlands?
Does the Land Use Act empower strangers to a town or community to deprive landowners, landrenters and landsettlers of the rights of their lands?
The Governor is advised to bring the police, the Civil Defence corps, Amotekun operatives and Vigilante groups together and fashion out ways to tackle headlong the security challenges ailing the state. To make this possible, he needs to mend fences with the police and be seen that he’s as concerned with the security wellbeing of the police as he’s seen to be concerned with the wellbeing of his citizens, both the hoodlums and the law abiding. If the Governor has been proactive on the Fulani herders’ alleged terrorism in the state as he was proactive on the endsars issues, the problems of the Fulani’s alleged invasions of farmlands would have been quarter-solved.
