GENOCIDE: ALIA’S SILENCE HAS BECOME AN ACCOMPLICE WHILE BENUE BLEEDS
…Gov Must Answer Amb. Tuggar’s Allegations of his Complicity
It is now very clear to every Benue person that Governor Hyacinth Alia, a supposed priest of the Catholic Church is into a deep pact with Fulani people to give them Benue lands to occupy in exchange for the N7 billion they gave him for campaigns ahead of the 2023 election after he took an oath to protect Fulani interests in the state. The Network For Transparent Governance (NTG) has consistently raised alarm over this issue but our people appeared not to believe it.
The people of Benue State have endured a horrible time of bloodshed, displacement, and anguish while the Governor Alia has remained silent, but nothing prepared us for the bombshell dropped by Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, on international television.
In his interview with Piers Morgan, the Minister boldly suggested that Governor Hyacinth Alia has remained silent because he does not believe that the widespread killings of Christians, especially in Benue State, amount to genocide. According to him, a Christian governor who believed his people were being massacred “would have been speaking out.”
This is not a mere political jab; it is a direct, public accusation of indifference. And unfortunately, it aligns perfectly with what Benue people have painfully observed: a governor who watches from the sidelines while his state is turned into a graveyard.
For a senior federal official to say such words on global television is damning enough. But what is even more damning is that Governor Alia’s silence has made the statement believable.
Where is the outrage from the Governor of a state drenched in blood?
Where is the moral fire of the priest who once stood at the altar preaching compassion and justice?
Where is the leader who swore an oath holding the Bible to defend his people?
Benue is under relentless attacks, villages erased, families shattered, women widowed, children orphaned, and our Governor has become a ghost in moments when a voice is needed most. His silence is no longer puzzling; it is disgraceful.
The Minister’s remark has exposed a truth many feared but hoped was not real: that Governor Alia has chosen quiet comfort over courageous leadership. That he prefers political convenience to defending the dead and the living. That he is more concerned with staying in the good books of Fulani than standing in the blood-soaked soil of his people.
NTG demands, with every ounce of moral authority, that Governor Alia immediately address Ambassador Tuggar’s explosive allegation.
Let him step forward and tell the world:
(i) Does he believe that Benue State is not experiencing genocide?
Is that why he has refused to speak?
(ii) Is that why the cries of the murdered and displaced mean nothing to him?
Benue people do not need a silent spectator.
Benue does not need a timid caretaker.
Benue needs a defender, and right now, Governor Alia is failing spectacularly.
History is recording every moment. It will remember the killers, yes, but it will also remember those who chose silence while their people died.
Governor Alia must break that silence now. Or stand permanently on the wrong side of history.
What does the governor know with Fulani? Why did he betray the trust of our people by selling them to Fulani for a pot of porridge?
Signed:
Dennis Agema
President
Network For Transparent Governance (NTG)
Oliver Omenka
Secretary General
